Hi, Curtis... You're right for the word "method"... But that's in fact why they are not called "methods" anymore ! :-)) Don't blame Python Script team : it's a non-trivial problem, both for security and... feasibility reasons ! I don't know wether it actually works for Python Methods, but you should try to pass your environment, just as you would for DTML Methods, like this : <dtml-var "MyPythonMethod (_.None, _)"> And then you should gain access to Zope environment. But remember this is not elegant and may lead you to security problems. Regards, P.-J. Curtis Maloney wrote:

Greetings

Yeh, yeh.. I know.. I should be using Python Scripts, or whatever... but for various reasons, I'm still using 2.1.6...

What I want to know is, why can't Python Methods refer to anything not explicitly passed to them? I don't want to have to make everything that invokes the method have to know to pass it half a dozen objects.

Isn't the idea of a method to be executed in the namespace of it's parent? I want my method to be able to access objects in it's own folder...

What am I missing?

Curtis

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