Looking around the python.org site I found the following info about httpdapy:
WHAT'S NEW SINCE THE 0.x VERSIONS
1. ZPublisher (formerly Bobo) support. The httpdapi_publisher module allows the use of ZPublisher (http://www.digicool.com/site/Bobo/) with httpdapi. See the module comments to find out how. Note that Zope (which is a development environment which includes ZPublisher) does not work reliably with Httpdapy yet. Zope does not have a good locking mechanism for its persistent object storage which creates a problem with Apache since apache runs as several separate processes any one of which can try to modify to the storage. I expect this will be resolved in the near future by producers of Zope.
This was a comment from 1998 it looks like. Does anyone have any knowledge of running Zope under httpdapy (which embeds python in apache)? I'd love to do this if it's possible. Has anyone at Digital Creations ever tried this? It seems like the perfomance of this combo would be much greater than apache + pcgi. Thanks for any info, Jason