I think I would categorise this as a bug in IDE, I think it should clear out the namespace of the module before running it again. Or at least there should be an option alongside the "run as __main__", "run profiled", etc. to get this behaviour. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm