A heavy tub 'n hot water session cleared my thinking a bit. So I'd like to answer my posting an offer an apology for this act of annoying waste of everybodys time :-)
I'm using an external method that imports another module "Defs.py". A dir(Defs) looked like this: ['Faculties','Secretaries', '__builtins__', '__doc__','__file__','__name__'] When I added a dictionary called Passwords to Defs ( Yes, I saved the file :-) ) Zope failed to detect the change and threw an 'AttributeError'. When I came to work this morning Zope still hadn't caught up so I restarted the server and everything went fine.
I think it works like this: Since the server has a long time running interpreter, the interpreter does not reload a previously imported module like my "Defs.py" unless it's explicitly told todo so. This is unpractical when you're developing and therefore constantly change things. Adding import Defs reload(Defs) keeps a few ugly tracebacks out your sight. Thanks for the release btw. It helped me to slay heretical doubts among management. -Fredrick -- ========================================== Fredrick Rybarczyk Research Engineer NetLab, Lund University