According to Sandipan Gangopadhyay <sandipan at vsnl.com>: > while binAliveMarker: > if binIWannaStartAgain: > time.sleep(1) > continue > work code ... Do you really code with such variable names? How about just "alive" and "startAgain"? while alive: if startAgain: blah blah Cheers. -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps at post1.com> * http://www.post1.com/home/ngps