I have a few questions as to how to map zope objcts in python, and I'm looking for help with this particular example. I am trying to create a python method that will take one argument, a string variable. It will then find the people that match and return a list with each of the person's data. I have found two methods that come close to doing what I am after. The first one returns all of the people data, including all the variables, and the second one filters out the people I don't want, but only returns the ids. I've tried switching aroung the map(None,self.ids) to map(None,self.data) and I get typerrors from lambda. I don't fully understand how this is working or what the data looks like to the interpreter, but I know I'm close Can anyone help? I've got ! these both work ! : -------- def peopleValues(self): """ return list of people's data """ return map(lambda x, p=self: x.__of__(p), self.data.map(self.ids)) def remote_personlist(self, thisdjname): """ returns true with ids to remote people that match """ rlist = map(None,self.ids) rlist = filter(lambda x,p=self : p.data[x].meta_type == 'This Kind of Person', rlist) rlist = filter(lambda x,p=self,s=thispersonname : p.data[x].clientpersonname == s, rlist) return rlist ------- Thanks! -ed-