I installed Python 2.1 and checked what great new things are there: they are numerous! As you know, I am a fan of documentation - reliable documentation, if possible directly extracted from the source. Therefore, the new Python documenter "pydoc" was very attractive for me. I had to tweak "Zope" and "pydoc" a bit such that they work nicely together: * "pydoc" imports the modules to find out about its content. Zope does not like to be imported, when another Zope process is running. Solved by calling "FileStorage.FileStorage" with the "read_only" parameter in "Zope.__init__", if instructed by an environment variable * "pydoc" is slightly confused by some of Zope's extension classes: it wants any class to have a "__module__" attribute. Zope's extension classes do not have it. Solved by wrapping pydoc's "__module__" access in an "try .... except". * "inspect" does not understand "Python Methods" (and other Zope methods). Correspondingly, Zope class documentation was almost empty. Solved by defining "implementsMethodInterface" and replacing "inspect.ismethod" by this function (at runtime). After these tweaks, "pydoc" can document Zope code. It is a bit overwhelming: The "pydoc" authors decided to document inherited methods with the class itself. As a consequence, for each Zope class, hundreds of mostly irrelevant methods are documented. But it should be easy to change this to get something similar to "javadoc": summary information for inherited methods. Already in the current state, I think, it is a great help for Zope developpers. If there is interest, I can post my changes. Dieter