[Python] What is the maximum recursion depth, and how to increase it?

I have this tail recursive function here:

def recursive_function(n, sum):
if n < 1:
return sum
else:
return recursive_function(n-1, sum+n)

c = 998
print(recursive_function(c, 0))


It works up to n=997, then it just breaks and spits out a RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison. Is this just a stack overflow? Is there a way to get around it?

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