Ok, knowing more about what's going on, now, I figured I would send an update to the list and hope it jars someone's memory. Here's what I am trying to do: I have a ZClass, MyTestClass. MyTestClass has two methods: method1, and method2. There are two other methods, showMethods and showMethods2, but they are only needed for the purpose of demonstration. I created an instance of MyTestClass with an id of 'test'. showMethods (a DTMLMethod) is defined as: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <p> method1 = <dtml-var "_.hasattr(this(), 'method1')"><br> method2 = <dtml-var "_.hasattr(this(), 'method2')"><br> nullmethod = <dtml-var "_.hasattr(this(), 'nullmethod')"> </p> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> and, when invoked on my 'test' instance, returns: method1 = 1 method2 = 1 nullmethod = 0 We're cookin'. Now, I need to get the same results with a PythonMethod. showMethods2 (a PythonMethod) is defined as: print _.hasattr(self, 'method1') print _.hasattr(self, 'method2') print _.hasattr(self, 'nullmethod') return printed which, when invoked on my 'test' instance, returns: 0 0 0 I have tried every permutation of Python code I can, and none work as the DTML Method does. Somebody? Anybody? :-) --Jeff --- Jeff K. Hoffman 704.849.0731 x108 Chief Technology Officer mailto:jeff.hoffman@goingv.com Going Virtual, L.L.C. http://www.goingv.com/