You can use the Zsql method. Just call it as you would any other function: result = context.<zsql_method_name> result will be a cursor object - http://www.python.org/topics/database/DatabaseAPI-2.0.html#cursor which you can then use to extract results using fetchone or fetchall or fetchmany data = result.fetchall() This will give you a list of dictionaries so to extract content from the first record in the recordset returned: data[0].content hth AM Mico Siahaan wrote:

3:52 PM 2/14/2003

I stored articles data in MySQL. The fields of articles tables are: title, content, and their date of submitted. Suppose I want to show only some of the content of the articles (about only 50 words shown), how do I do it in Zope? I thought I could use Z-SQL Method to get the full content from MySQL then processed Z-SQL result with python script. But I failed. I did not know how to pass the Z-SQL Method result to python script. Can anybody give me an example how to do it?

Thanks.

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