Now,
I have been thinking about this for a few days now… Is it possible to create a tuple in python that refers to itself. I don’t mean via some other object, so the following does not count:
def recursive(): l = [] t = (l,) l.append(t) return t
I believe it is possible to do directly from C, but I can not think of a way to do it from within python.
The idea of creating a recursive tuple was spawned from this little comment I found in the pickle source code: “… recursive tuples are a rare thing”. At first I thought it was talking about a tuple that directly refers to itself, but then figured that it must be talking about tuple’s that indirectly refer to themselves.