Hello, I have set up a server and client with perspective broker and can successfully move data back and forth between them. however, i want to use the client interactively at the python prompt. ie, i want to create a client object, make a request of the server and get the data returned to me. then i want to do some work with the data interactively at the python command prompt, until i need new data. then i want to use the client again to make another request of the server, etc. i have read i cannot stop and restart a reactor (which is what i would like to do on the client side). then i found out about reactor.crash(). that seems to work fine, which i think allow me to put the reactor on hold so i can get back to the command prompt and do some work until i need to make another request to the server. At least I can get it to work as expected. however, i now dont know how to call "reactor.stop()" before I exit python. once the client finishes, it sets a "reactor.crash()". now when I try to call reactor.stop(), i get the following error that the reactor isnt running: raise RuntimeError, "can't stop reactor that isn't running" RuntimeError: can't stop reactor that isn't running so now i cant stop the reactor using reactor.stop(). and furthermore, when i try to exit the python command prompt (having run reactor.crash() but not reactor.stop()), the python command prompt hangs instead of exiting normally and I have to kill its process. is there any way to exit python normally when the reactor has been put into a reactor.crash()? im using twisted 2.0 and python 2.4.1 on windows xp sp2. TIA, Tom