Pylint gives me an error like this very frequently.
shabda@jazzy ~/uswaretech_uswaretechsite> pylint -e utpages/forms.py
No config file found, using default configuration
Exception RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object' in <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'> ignored
The logalib mailing list discusses it at http://lists.logilab.org/pipermail/python-projects/2009-March/001789.html , but its a old thread, so has anyone fiund an error like this with Pylint, and found the root cause in ther code?
There's an open ticket about this bug. The bug report contains details about the cause.