I'm writing an external method in Python which is going to be used to create new instances of a ZClass that I've written. In my normal DTML for object creation, I would do something like this: <dtml-with "ZClass.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST)"> <dtml-call "propertysheets.instanceProperties.manage_editProperties(REQUEST)"> <dtml-call unindex_object> <dtml-call "manage_editCataloger('MyCatalog', REQUEST)"> <dtml-call index_object> </dtml-with> I've got an external method written which is able to create a new object by calling the ZClass.createInObjectManager method. However, I'm not sure how to code up the code contained in the dtml-with block using Python. I suspect that I could get things to work for the example above with something like this: (self is the product containing my ZClass definition) newobj = self.ZClass.createInObjectManager(REQUEST['id'], REQUEST) newobj.propertysheets.instanceProperties.manage_editProperties(REQUEST) newobj.unindex_object() newobj.manage_editCataloger('MyCatalog', REQUEST) newobj.index_object() However, I'm interested in knowing how do code up stuff in Python which would take into account acquisition. Thanks. James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103