Maximum recursion depth on class

Question

I have a class that I'm trying to set is_duplicate to True like:

file = FileProperties(long, lat, timestamp, compas, filename)
[...]
file.is_duplicate = True

And I get a RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object what exactly am I doing wrong? The file class creation is also happening in a for loop, but I don't think that's the issue with this specific error.

class FileProperties(object):
    def __init__(self, longitude, latitude, timestamp, compas, filename):
        self._longitude = longitude
        self._latitude = latitude
        self._timestamp = timestamp
        self._filename = filename
        self._compas = compas
        self._duplicate = False
        self._teleporting = False

    @property
    def get_lat(self):
        return self._latitude

    @property
    def get_long(self):
        return self._longitude

    @property
    def get_timestamp(self):
        return self._timestamp

    @property
    def get_filename(self):
        return self._filename

    @property
    def get_compas(self):
        return self._compas

    @property
    def is_duplicate(self):
        return self._duplicate

    @property
    def is_teleporting(self):
        return self._teleporting

    @is_duplicate.setter
    def is_duplicate(self, value):
        self.is_duplicate = value

    @is_teleporting.setter
    def is_teleporting(self, value):
        self._teleporting = value

Answer 1

In:

@is_duplicate.setter
def is_duplicate(self, value):
    self.is_duplicate = value

Change self.is_duplicate to self._duplicate and it should work I guess (else please provide a minimal working example).

The reason for this bug is that you are assigning the method is_duplicate instead of the attribute _duplicate hence you are creating an infinite call loop, because the method is trying to set itself in an infinite loop because it goes through the setter again and again and again...