Robert Rottermann writes:

I would like to use manage_addProduct from a unit test running outside of zope. Outside of Zope but on a Zope ZODB?

If you answer "yes", then import Zope R= Zope.app() get_transaction().begin() dest=R.<path to your destination> dest.manage_addProduct[...]... # use as usual get_transaction().commit() If you answer "no", then you need to emulate part of Zope's product registry -- too difficult to explain here. Dieter