On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:21:25PM +0100, Gerson Kurz wrote: > As you can see, the assignment "num = 60" is called *after* "import b". I > know that "import b" does a recursive "import a", but *that is already done* > at the time I do the "num=60" bit. So this is what I don't get. 60 was assigned to __main__.num, but a.num was only set once (to 42) Jeff