Hi Zopesters! I'm an experienced Python programmer, and I need to hack together a quick web app that simply accepts POSTed XML data entries from authenticated users, stores the data persistently, and provides a formatted HTML representation of the list of all such entries to the same authenticated user. I thought I would look at using ZODB so that I could have the coolness of nearly transparent persistence. Then I thought I would use Zope so that I wouldn't have to bother with connecting the HTTP transactions to the logic. So I did `apt-get install zope'[1] to download and install the current Debian-packaged version of Zope (v2.2.4), and while I was waiting on the download I went to zope.org. It is now about 3 hours later and I have not yet found any "example code" or instructions that shows how to set up a basic web site or how to write Python code that gets executed, CGI-style, in response to an HTTP transaction. I browsed zope.org, the ZDP, and a site called "ZopeNewbies". I looked at the "QuickStart" that came with the zope server, but all I saw was how to edit web pages using DTML. I don't want to have anything to do with DTML (though we use it in my product, Mojo Nation[2], which BTW is probably the second-biggest open source Python app, after Zope), and I don't want to edit any static pages, so I stopped reading the "QuickStart". So now I give up. I'm going to install apache (`apt-get install apache'), and use the Python bsddb module for a simple dict-like database. Even though I wasted about half of my scheduled time on trying to set up a basic Zope server, I'll probably still have my prototype up and running 3 hours from now, when I have a meeting with my co-workers. Regards, Zooko [1] apt-get is the app that implements Debian's package management system. [2] http://mojonation.net/