Hi Jerome I'm very happy with the following, which calls 'lsprop' on a list of propertysheets:: commands = {} for ps in propertysheets: commands[ps] = 'lsprop %s'%ps results = {} for key in commands.keys(): xmlrpcstuff = { 'path': '/', 'result_type': 'text', 'command': commands[key] } out = context.zshell(xmlrpcstuff=xmlrpcstuff) results[key] = out['data'].split('\n')[:-1] It seems that zshell's 'text' output format is less rich than its HTML output -- the difference between 'MyShell.get_stdout()' (returns only property names) and 'MyShell.get_HTML()' (returns type and value as well). I made this change (assuming that stdout can be parsed tab-seperated-value-like), in case you want to consider it: --- /tmp/zshell.py.orig Thu Jun 13 15:53:14 2002 +++ zshell.py Thu Jun 13 15:51:38 2002 @@ -3407,7 +3407,8 @@ propvalue = repr(object.getProperty(prop["id"], 'Error')) results.append({"Property": propid, "Type": proptype, "Value": propvalue, "Mode": propmode}) - self.printf("%s" % propid) + self.printf("%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n" % (propid, proptype, propvalue, propmode)) + self.tableDisplay("lsprop", ["Property", "Type", "Value", "Mode"], results) return status -- Jean Jordaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za