[Zope-dev] RE: Curious Problem

I've spent most of the day recreating the setup from scratch, just to rule out a python problem. I built python 2.1.3 from source, then used that python (renamed python2.1.3) to build zope from src. I can still run from the command line, but not from zope; same error as before. One thing I tried was to move the class definition inside the function definition (how could zope miss it? ;) ) but still no joy. I just don't understand why zope even needs to see the class. The function reads a record from an rdbms, unpickles and uses a few object properties to build a string. Something in zope itself seems to be preventing this. Any other thoughts?