[Zope] Bonehead problem w/ return printed from external method

I feel like i'm hitting my head up against a wall, and need a sanity check. on an external method, def main(self): print "this is a test" return printed doesn't work. what is printed does display on my console, but my zmi comes back with Error Type: NameError Error Value: global name 'printed' is not defined I'm using default python 2.1 installation (jnot from zope) and zope 2.6.0... on w2k. return printed does work as expected from inside a script/python, however. Thanks alot for any response, like i said it's about time to put a helmet on.