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It's absolutely not peculiar to Python, it's something that every single language implementation has to make a decision on one way or the other.

Here's an SO answer from 2008 about how to enable TCO in various C and C++ compilers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34125/which-if-any-c-com...

There are many things both you and I have never heard of before. That's normal.