I'm currently trying to play with external methods using the How-To written by "brian".

cf. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods

When I'm trying to pass the REQUEST object to my external method, Zope complains:

Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.

Error Type: TypeError Error Value: not enough arguments; expected 2, got 1

The method definition looks like "def helloWorld(self, REQUEST)". And the call to the external methods looks like "<dtml-var "helloWorld(REQUEST)">". So it looks to me like Zope is asking for the "self" variable, which is a bit strange since this argument is supposed to be implicit.

You aren't trying to call it from another External Method by any chance, are you? Can you post the code/dtml that you are actually using to call the helloWorld method? Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com