I have unsuccessifully been trying to figure out ou to get the type of an object from withing html.

are you talking about a ZOPE object? remember if you are a DTML Method your 'meta_type' will return the container object (it doenst have its own namespace) you could try <dtml-with object> <dtml-var meta_type> </dtml-with>

Python is supposed to have a function type(object) that return the type, but I was not able to find a way to call it. (and I would rather prefere not to have to define an external function.).

would you please elaborate.... what are you trying to determine the type of?

My problem seems to have to do with the Zope namespace (which model I believe is a real pain in the ass :-(((().

I agree. _[_['blah']] is probably the nastiest thing I've ever seen. and then someone will start adding lambdas to it and it will be all crap to maintain from there... :( eventually the namespace will be explained and documented better, this is mainly a python/ZOPE framework idea that needs to be experienced. I still dont 100% get it. I can usually make things work, but sometimes I just dont quite 'get it'.

Any suggestion, ideas ?

be abit more specific, you using python methods,. external methods, or trying to do this from within DTML? ~runyaga