Shane, You are DA MAN. That getPhysicalPath() & unrestrictedTraverse() methods work perfectly, even with SiteAccess installed. Thank you very much. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Shane Hathaway [mailto:shane@digicool.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:11 PM To: Tom Jenkins Subject: Re: [Zope] Storing and Using Object references Tom Jenkins wrote:

Hello all, i have a question and I hope someone can point me in the right direction to solve it. I need one zope object to hold a reference to another zope object so the first object can call methods of the second object. oh, these are python classes.

Example: object 1 is : /container1/container1a/item1 object 2 is : /container2/container2a/item1 object1 needs to hold a reference to object2. I'm really stuck on how to store and access object2 from object1.

any pointers?

I think what you're looking for is getPhysicalPath() and unrestrictedTraverse(). Store object2.getPhysicalPath(), which returns a tuple, in object1. To find object2 again, call object1.unrestrictedTraverse(stored_physical_path). Note that this only works in Zope 2.2.x+. Shane -------------------------------------------- Tom Jenkins |<xml> Its devIS - Development InfoStructure |all you 703.525.6485 tjenkins@devis.com |need it http://www.devis.com |to be</xml>