Mica Fine wrote:

Will it be nessary for me to know Python to fully implament Zope?

I'm not entirely sure what 'fully implement Zope' means. You can definitely work with Zope without knowing Python, I've seen several people do it here. You can set up fairly dynamic sites without picking up more than a bit of Python. However, if you want to do things like: * tricky DTML For instance for some extra dynamicism, or if you're misusing DTML and you should be using Python instead. :) * writing external methods/Python methods For instance to validate user input to some form on the server side (this can be done with tricky DTML too). * writing new Zope products (components) For this you could use ZClasses and DTML, but this gets limited quickly; Python knowledge in some way is very handy here too. If you do want to pick up Python, I don't recommend starting to learn within the Zope framework (unless you're not *using* the Zope framework in any way). The Zope framework does some fairly 'magical' things automatically that will probably confuse the newbie. I may be mistaken, it'd be interested to hear from people who picked up Python by working with Zope. Python is easier to learn in isolation first. Go to www.python.org and download an interpreter and experiment some with it first. Write small scripts. Then come back to Zope and work with external methods or PythonMethods (or complex DTML expressions, but they're not the best way to learn Python either!). Anyway, you don't have to know Python, but I'd recommend it. If you don't use it with Zope, it's bound to be useful in some other way. It's a fairly easy language to learn, and it's easy and powerful to use. Regards, Martijn