I've been trying to roll my own RSS parsing in Zope by using Mark Hammond's feedparser python module. I've been able to get it to install it successfully, and have been able to get Zope to let Scripts (Python) import it natively, by creating a new directory called "Other" in the Products directory, and putting an __init__.py file in it with the following 2 lines: from Products.PythonScripts.Utility import allow_module allow_module('feedparser') Basically, the parser is supposed to return a dictionary containing the rss feed information. If I create and run the following python script: import feedparser uri = 'http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf' return feedparser.parse(uri) and click the "test" view in the ZMI, I see a single, REALLY long line of text that is the string representation of the output dictionary (the real output, with live data from slashdot). And this seems to be a real dictionary, not just a string, because len(feedparser.parse(uri)) returns 9. But I can't seem to access any of the dictionary functionality, because when I try to, the ZMI keeps asking me to log in again (even though I'm logged in as the site manager), won't accept any of my login credentials (either site manager or emergency user), and then, when I ultimately click "cancel", tells my I don't have the authorization to access this element in this context. For example, if I create and run the following python script import feedparser data = feedparser.parse('http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf') return data['channel'] I receive the error message "You are not authorized to access 'channel' in this context.". What's going on? Placing the feedparser.parse() functionality in an external method doesn't help either, I get the same results (viewing the top dictionary returns shows a string representation of the dictionary, viewing any subelement of the dictionary causes an "Unauthorized error). Feedparser doesn't have any outside dependencies (at least, I certainly didn't install any, and it works perfectly in the python shell). Does Zope restrict the use of dictionaries somehow? Are there some other access granting commands I should put in __init__.py ? I'm using Zope 2.7 with python 2.3 on linux. Any help is greatly appreciated! Greg Steffensen