Okay just found this article http://www.zope.org/Members/pbrunet/ExternalMethodsBasicSummary Seems like only a subset of the std python library is avail through scripts and it is recommended to use external methods ... I will try that. ____________________________________________ Peter Millar -----Original Message----- From: plone-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:plone-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Peter Millar Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 9:36 AM To: plone-users@lists.sourceforge.net; zope@zope.org Subject: [Plone-users] How can you make python library available in python script Sorry for the multi post first of all . In http://plone.org/Members/runyaga/presentations/OSCOM/workshop/oscom.html it says "Exposing existing python libraries is trivial." and "Zope and CMF provide the services that Plone consumes. What does this mean for a developer? * any/all libraries (thousands) available to Python are usable by Plone" But there is no documentation anywhere saying how this can be done . for instance I go to the web and find a great charting library pychart or chartdirector. How can I add it so that it is available in python script. Please don't respond by saying use ZGDCHART because Ihave tried this also and cannot get it to install either. I would prefer to learn how to add a library to zope . it can't be that hard. I have searched(google and the mailing lists) and found that if I put the library in my plone\python\lib\site-packages directory but once I do that I am not sure how to reference the library classes from the python script . I have tried doing an import but I keep getting import of <package name> is unauthorised. Any suggestions or help or suggestions for other things to google would be most appreciative. Thanks in advance. ____________________________________________ Peter Millar ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Plone-users mailing list Plone-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users