[Zope] python-to-python in zope?

hi all, I've written a bot in python 2.0 and it's running on the same machine as zope 2.2. I'd like somehow to be able to send messages from zope (like...start and stop or go trawl this site etc) to the OTHER version of python running my bot.... I've tried using external methods but because the other version of python has ODBC stuff and Tkinter etc python methods can't "talk" to my app. It errors on import... Should I try to add my bot to the python that comes included with zope (Is it python 2.0?) or does anybody have any better ideas... thanks tom tom@othermedia.com