Re: [Zope] references to zope objects

As an alternative to using the id attribute, could I use the URL of the targetObject as a reference to it? In this case what's the python code to 'dereference' the URL?

It sounds like (un)restrictedTraverse() is your friend here. It takes a url (although without the host/domain segments I think) and returns the corresponding object to you. So, you could do something like: targetObject = context.restrictedTraverse(path_to_targetObject) targetObject.APImethod() hth, tim