[Mate' Sztipanovits]

i am having trouble with self in external scripts .. does anyone know tyhe general idea. or more specifically how can i call self.manage_addFile() without Zope barfing on self.

If you mean an External Method, that would be an ordinary Python script. Python does not maintain a variable called "self". When you see "self" used in the definition on a class's methods, it is a placeholder to represent a parameter that will be passed to that method when it is called. For example, these two definitions are equivalent: class with_self: def __init__(self,property): self.property=property class with_xxx: def __init__(xxx,property): xxx.property=property When you create an object of that class, a reference to the object is passed when you call the method, as in object_with_xxx=with_xxx("property1") print object_with_xxx.property So you see, there wouldn't actually be any reference to a "self" by that name. You have to get a reference to the actual object. Cheers, Tom P