Thanks for the answer, it helped me, but you missed what I really wanted. I don't want to call SQL queries by query string, what I want is to use Z SQL Methods, but I need to identify them by their name as string, because in this project we have many complicated queries with parameters. But finally I am happy because that works: m1=getattr(self,'dbTest') #dbTest is a ZSQL method rs=m1(self) for r in rs: ........... Thanks Philipp Auersperg(zwork) *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 21.08.2000 at 13:32 Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:

+-------[ Philipp Auersperg ]---------------------- | | What I want to do is calling a SQL method given its | name as string, so I first have to get the method out of | the self.__dict__ and then call it. I need that for calling | the SQL methods dynamically for example out of an URL | string.

realConnection=getattr(self,connectionId) realConnection().query(query_in_a_string)

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