While true loops giving me recursion errors - python-3.x

Question

I'm creating a game with pygame for my CompSci course. The game is working well, but now I'm trying to make a restart function and I'm getting alot of errors.
The basic outline of what I'm trying to do is:
first = True
def check(count):
if count == 1000:
return True
else:
return False
def start():
# MAIN MENU
print ("start")
count = 0
while True:
count += 1
if check(count) == True:
Game()
def Game():
count = 0
print("Game")
while True:
# GAMELOOP
count += 1
if check(count) == True:
restart()
def restart():
count = 0
print ("Restart")
while True:
# RESTART
count += 1
if check(count) == True:
start()
if first == True:
first = False
start()
However, whenever I run this, python ultimately crashes with:
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object
I'm not sure about how to get around this. I was hoping that someone could suggest another method to do the same thing or something that I've done wrong.
The actual restart and menu functions:
def rest(): #Main Menu
while True:
pygame.display.update()
menu.draw()
if pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
x, y = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
if x >= 255 and x <= 355 and y >= 400 and y <= 450:
game()
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
def game(): #Gameloop
while True:
if bottom.time == 0 or bottom.time < 0 :
game_screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
restart()
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
def restart():
while True:
pygame.display.update()
menu.restart()
if pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
x, y = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
if x >= 255 and x <= 355 and y >= 400 and y <= 450:
game_screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
rest()
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()

Answer 1

Do you have a sequence of functions calling each other creating a indirect recursion.
start() counts to 1000 and then calls Game(), which counts to 1000 again and then calls restart(), whichs also counts to 1000 an then calls start(), closing the recursion loop. Once you do not have a stop condition, your recursion goes until reach the depth limit of python's recursion stack, then you get the exception.
As solution, you need to create a stop condition inside of one those functions.
Edit
I don't know pygame exactly but, as far as I get from the additional code, to the for in rest() function (which checks the events) be executed, it needs that the game() function returns, which are never happening. You can test this hyphotesis printing something just in the line before the for line. Same applies to the restart function.