Well, if it's a fixed set, you could suck it into zope using load_site.py (comes with it)... or you could use LocalFS or ExtFile products to directly 'see' the stuff.
From: "zope" <zope@antelecom.net> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:05 PM Subject: [Zope] polling a file system
Hi gang!
i hae a 20 gig drive full of image files (png, jpg, gif), and i would like to catalog the file name and location programatically. i'm wondering if and how it may be possible to run a query on zope that would scan and catalog a file system (even a windows hard drive), and populate a database based on file name, type, size, etc. the data entry part, i'm sure i have down, my big question here is how to scan the hard drive.
Thanks in advance, Shaun