On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Roland Hedberg <roland at catalogix.se> wrote: > When the main script is done it closes down the HTTP server by doing: >> op.terminate() >> The problem I have is that if the main script is run again almost immediate then the old HTTP server > process doesn't seem to have released the port yet. So setting up a new server fails. You may wish to consider a more orderly shutdown (send the server a signal upon which it shuts itself down), but the simplest and most direct solution is to set the SO_REUSEADDR flag. http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html?highlight=so_reuseaddr I've not actually used the TCPServer class myself, but a cursory glance at the docs suggests that it's possible if you subclass it: http://docs.python.org/library/socketserver.html#SocketServer.BaseServer.allow_reuse_address Chris Angelico