I just installed zope 2.3.0 for Linux, from the tar file downloaded from the Zope site. Went great. I noticed in the docs that a pre-compiled binary of Python comes with the zope tarball in a bin subdir. Well, my question is -- since I am new to python, have done a lot with perl -- the binary that comes with zope is 1.5 megs, while I already have another binary that came with my mandrake 7.2 system, same version, 1.5.2, in /usr/bin. It is only 423k. Are there certain modules or whatever added to the binary that comes with Zope that I need to use? Therefore, should I replace the /usr/bin/python with the python binary that is in the Zope bin dir? What effect would that have on my python installation? Could someones shed some light on this for me? Any help much appreciated. Gary