Hey all, an odd question, I have been playing around with the export import functions, (just for fun :) ) And was trying to pull stuff out of zexp files (not through the normal way) and I noticed something odd. When i unpickle an object from a .zexp file, lets say its a simple DTML method I can get two differnet results If I have the pickled string lets call it pick_string and i use pickle.loads(pick_string) or (as the importFile func has it) pfile=StringIO(pick_string) unpickler=Unpickler(pfile) unpickler.load() These give me an object of type tuple which reads (('OFS.DTMLMethod','DTMLMethod'),None) just a tuple od string (pretty useless) but if I take that same string and put it in a file and use pickle.load(file) or unpickler=Unpickler(file) unpickler.load() I get a dictionary object which also reads (('OFS.DTMLMethod','DTMLMethod'),None) but has keys (raw,__name__,etc.) all the good stuff I would expect from a DTML method. Can anyone tell me whats going on here? Is this pickle being odd, or just me??? thanks -scott