From: Ken Jin <kenjin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 14:59:34 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: gh-128563: Clarify tail calling interpreter is not TCO (#129809)
X-Git-Tag: v3.14.0a5~67
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gh-128563: Clarify tail calling interpreter is not TCO (#129809)

Clarify tail calling interpreter is not TCO
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
index c788db31fc27..e5e9474d1e5d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
@@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ For further information on how to build Python, see
 (Contributed by Ken Jin in :gh:`128718`, with ideas on how to implement this
 in CPython by Mark Shannon, Garret Gu, Haoran Xu, and Josh Haberman.)
 
+.. note::
+
+   This is not to be confused with tail call optimization of Python code.
+   Python functions do not currently have tail call optimization.
+
 
 Other language changes
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