hello! everything was working fine until a couple of days ago and now.. Obviously I have no exact traceback of what was done on the machine, but I updated my gentoo box by emerging some apps (nothing apparently involving plone/zope/python/mysql...) :-( Now I really do not know where to bang my head..perhaps on re module?? thanks.. Stefano. when I call the external method zope returns this weird 'error 41': ... IndexError Value 41 details: Request URL http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_i... Exception Type IndexError Exception Value 41 Traceback (innermost last): Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 115, in publish Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 41, in call_object Module Products.ExternalMethod.ExternalMethod, line 225, in __call__ __traceback_info__: ((<Folder at /bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools>, <HTTPRequest, URL=http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_import>), {}, None) Module /var/lib/zope/zope-inst01/Extensions/cabi_import_em.py, line 38, in cabi_import IndexError: 41 Display traceback as text REQUEST form cabi_local_path '/home/stefano/biosafe200810.tag' cookies __ac 'dTAwMDAwMDE6dTAwMDAwMDE%3D' tree-s 'eJzT0MgpMOQKVneEA1dbda4CI67EkgJjLj0AeGcHew' lazy items SESSION <bound method SessionDataManager.getSessionData of <SessionDataManager at /session_data_manager>> other TraversalRequestNameStack [] AUTHENTICATED_USER <PloneUser 'u0000001'> URL 'http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_i...' SERVER_URL 'http://localhost:8081' AUTHENTICATION_PATH 'bibliosafety' __ac 'dTAwMDAwMDE6dTAwMDAwMDE%3D' PUBLISHED <ExternalMethod at /bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_import> cabi_local_path '/home/stefano/biosafe200810.tag' ACTUAL_URL 'http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_i...' URL0 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_i... URL1 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools URL2 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt URL3 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home URL4 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety URL5 http://localhost:8081 BASE0 http://localhost:8081 BASE1 http://localhost:8081 BASE2 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety BASE3 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home BASE4 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt BASE5 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools BASE6 http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_i... environ HTTP_COOKIE '__ac="dTAwMDAwMDE6dTAwMDAwMDE%3D"; tree-s="eJzT0MgpMOQKVneEA1dbda4CI67EkgJjLj0AeGcHew"' SERVER_SOFTWARE 'Zope/(Zope 2.9.8-final, python 2.4.4, linux2) ZServer/1.1 Plone/2.5.5' SCRIPT_NAME '' REQUEST_METHOD 'GET' PATH_INFO '/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_import' SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.1' QUERY_STRING 'cabi_local_path=/home/stefano/biosafe200810.tag' channel.creation_time 1225111356 CONNECTION_TYPE 'Keep-Alive' HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 'iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5' HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.9 (like Gecko)' HTTP_REFERER 'http://localhost:8081/bibliosafety/admins_home/index_html' SERVER_NAME '0.0.0.0' REMOTE_ADDR '127.0.0.1' PATH_TRANSLATED '/bibliosafety/admins_home/cabi_mgmt/import_tools/cabi_import' SERVER_PORT '8081' HTTP_PRAGMA 'no-cache' HTTP_HOST 'localhost:8081' HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL 'no-cache' HTTP_ACCEPT 'text/html, image/jpeg, image/png, text/*, image/*, */*' GATEWAY_INTERFACE 'CGI/1.1' HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 'it, en' HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 'x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate' lines: 01 import re 02 def cabi_import(self, REQUEST): ... 30 for cabi_data_record in cabi_data_recordset: 31 temp_dict_row = {} 32 fieldpos = 0 33 counter = 0 34 """ calculate the total number of fields of the record """ 35 fieldmax = self.sql_queries.query_05() 36 """ take each field content until the end of the record """ 37 while fieldpos < fieldmax[0]["col_count"]: 38 cabi_data_field = cabi_data_record[fieldpos] 39 """ strips excess whitespaces """ 40 re_pattern = re.compile('\s+') 41 cabi_data_field = re_pattern.sub(' ', cabi_data_field) ... """ other regexps """ ... query_05 = SELECT COUNT(*) AS 'col_count' FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'cabi_data'