Hi I'm sure that this question has been answered before, but searching the archive for a couple of hours, I could not find it. Yes, I'm new to python. I am using Zope 2.4 on Solaris. I need to send the input from a HTML form to a remote server as an HTTP post, but I first need to validate the inputs and convert them into an XML-formatted string. I want to do this in a python script. (I'm fine doing the XML formatting.) The "remote" post is currently of a fire-and-forget nature, but in the future might be changed to contain a response (success/failure=>post again). Cheers Marc PS: I'd be glad for recommendations of any good in depth "teaching" books on Python. I have the library references, but they are a bit brief for the un-initiated. (a convert from PHP, where I knew how to do this)