Answering my own message....tut tut. The problem was that htmlfmt was in my /usr/local/lib/python/site-packages/ directory. Once I copied it to Zopes' lib/python1.5 directory everything works fine. (Is this behaviour documented anywhere....should be I reckon). Tone

Hi all, I'm trying to add this snippet as an external method ------ import htmlfmt

def test(): "Testing zope 1" a = htmlfmt.UL(("1", "2", "3")) return a

print test() -----

(htmlfmt is a library from the van Rossum, Watters and Ahlstrom book 'Internet programming with Python').

It does work...

96 % python test.py <UL> <LI>1 <LI>2 <LI>3 </UL>

but trying to add this as an external method just does not happen. I'm left staring at a rotating beachball while the system tries to add it to the database.

The following works fine... ------- def test(): "Testing zope 2" a = """<UL> <LI>1 <LI>2 <LI>3 </UL> """ return a --------

Can someone please point out the fly in the ointment here? I feel like I'm sitting in a corner wearing a <|0 at the moment... ta tone

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