I followed the External Method howto by brian to the tee. But i get back these trace back errors: traceback (innermost last): File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 179, in publish File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 202, in zpublisher_exception_hook File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 165, in publish File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_addExternalMethod) File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: manage_addExternalMethod) File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 125, in manage_addExternalMethod File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 167, in __init__ (Object: upload_external) File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 186, in manage_edit (Object: upload_external) File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/Products/ExternalMethod/ExternalMethod.py, line 195, in getFunction (Object: upload_external) File /home/whho/Zope/lib/python/App/Extensions.py, line 205, in getObject (Info: ('/home/whho/Zope/Extensions/upload.py', 'upload')) SyntaxError: (see above) I can't understand it. The filename I entered (without .py) is correct and even i follow the Function name in my upload.py which is upload_external. I'm loss. I'm using zope2-1-1 binary from zope.org and running under Mandrake 6.0. Help please!