Whenever I'm using SQL databases in zope, I always seem to have to make a ZSQL instance for inserting into every table in my database, and they are all nearly the same - they just have a list of all the fields in the database in the parameters, then they say: insert into [table] ([list of fields]) values ([list of <dtml-sqlvar>s]) I'd much rather have a dictionary of fields and values, and just throw it at the DB, not having to make those queries for every table. I have acheived it like so: mydict = {"field1":"value1" , "field2":"value2" ,...} (fields,values)=zip(*myDict.items()) context.genericInsert(table='table name',fields=fields,values=values) Where generic insert is the following ZSQL method: insert into "<dtml-var table>" (<dtml-in expr="fields">"<dtml-var sequence-item>"<dtml-if sequence-end><dtml-else>,</dtml-if></dtml-in>) values (<dtml-in expr="values"><dtml-sqlvar sequence-item type=string><dtml-if sequence-end><dtml-else>,</dtml-if></dtml-in>); with parameters: * table - table name * fields - list of fieldnames * values - list of values in the same order What do other people think of this? Is it a really bad idea? Robert Munro