Chris> You may want to try out Dieter Maurer's DocFinder product Chris> (http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/DocFinder.html). Thanks, I'll give it a look. Chris> Otherwise the help system and the Zope Book appendices are what Chris> you've got. Note that there is a fairly extensive API reference Chris> in the help system. This part is frustrating. Stuff seems to be scattered all over the place. Part of my frustration is that when I find something that looks promising I generally have to figure out what the page template equivalent of a dtml example is. I really don't want to wade into dtml again. I used it for a few years outside of Zope and didn't like it. Chris> Were you successful at accessing your Zope objects in a Python Chris> prompt? Yes, thanks. I can get to the static stuff without too much trouble using the medusa/monitor_client script. It's a tad frustrating to not have readline, but I guess that's the price I have to pay for using a canned install on a not-quite-yet wrung out platform (MacOSX). Perhaps I can coax IPython or pyrepl into working for me. I haven't yet tried submitting a form with several fields. I anticipate that will be tedious. Is there some way I can make dir() and type() available to scripts for development purposes and make sys importable once again? -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/