I'm running a bunch of python scripts from a directory, one after the other. I want to make sure that those scripts don't interfere with each other. My code looks like this: for(directory_iterator itr(filterDir);itr!=directory_iterator();++itr) { if(itr->path().extension()==".py") { try { object global = import("__main__").attr("__dict__"); object sys = import("sys"); sys.attr("path").attr("append")(str(filterDir)); exec_file(str(itr->path().string()), global, global); } catch(error_already_set const &) { cout<<"Python syntax/runtime error."<<endl; PyErr_Print(); } catch(...) { cout<<"Uknown error from script file: "<<itr->path()<<endl; } } } Basically what I want to know is this: For every iteration of the exterior for loop will any of the scripts that are executed be able to impact in any way another script that is executed? For example, I was thinking a script could remove that path that I want to add from the import search paths and break the next script that is run, since it wouldn't have that path. thanks.