Greetings guys, We have a small demo site that we would like to record who vists and if they come back give a little message saying we know who they are and we welcome them back. To do this I am using Session. The thing is we want the data to be persistant so we are attempting to write the data out to a db. So we set the add/del to be two python scripts. our add one is something like this, args==item,container. <start> ZopeID = container.browser_id_manager.getBrowserId() records = container.sqlLstSession(zsession_key=ZopeID) if len(records) == 0: # Database hold no session row for this session # Create a new row for this session container.sqlInsSession(zsession_key=ZopeID) # Regardless of wether we just created the session row, or one existed already, update it with item container.sqlUpdSessionData(zsession_key=ZopeID, zsession_value=item) </end> Except when we call REQUEST.SESSION.set('test_item','test_value'), the data in the contents of the SESSION data structure contains no data, eg. demo=# select * from zsession_data; zsession_key | zsession_value ---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------- 76055663A0wuh14y-MQ | id: 10500762450365664153, token: 76055663A0wuh14y-MQ, contents: [] (1 row) Have we done something wrong in where we presume the update gets called? How do we get just the contents of the item? Regards, Brenton Bills.