Hello, I am new to python and zope, and am evaluating it for possible use as the future contant management system for one of our websites. I was wondering if you could help me out with some presumably simple questions: - My main issue is the integration of a python module (MapServer) into Zope. This is a module compiled using SWIG, which ends up with a .py, .pyc and .so file. I've allready tried, quickly importing this module but without success, I guess I will have to learn more about the security framework of Zope. The big thing is access to the file system. Can I allow it in any way? Can I trick the module into using Zope Objects instead of the file system? Or can I override the default built-in security provisions that prevent such access? This is crucial to me. The said module reads a variety of data from the file system normally, and I need a way to make it work under Zope. I'm allready quite familair with it's perl version. - The database where basic content of the site is kept, how stable is it? How big a site can it hold? I noticed that the entire site seems to live within one file. The current, standard HTMl/Filesystem site takes around 600MB, how robust is the Zope storage back-end? What about performance with large sites? That's it for now :) Thanks in advance! Jean-François Doyon Internet Service Development and Systems Support GeoAccess Division Canadian Center for Remote Sensing Natural Resources Canada http://atlas.gc.ca Phone: (613) 992-4902 Fax: (613) 947-2410