Mitchell L Model writes:
Is there something built-in to Zope that gives me the folder a value (or a property) was acquired from? Or do I simply have to walk the path back towards the root to find it? No.
If the object you access is not a property (simple type) but an AcquisitionWrapper, you can use "wrapper.aq_inner.aq_parent" to locate the the containing object (works only in an external method, as "aq_inner" is not considered safe (do not know why!)). For objects of simple type, you would need to emulate the acquisition lookup: External method "findContainer": def findContainer(obj,attr): if hasattr(obj,'aq_self'): c= findContainer(obj.aq_self,attr) if c is None: return findContainer(obj.aq_parent,attr) return c if hasattr(obj,attr): return obj return None This will return either the containing object or None. Dieter