I have it working...aside from not having my methods returning anything <blush>...I restarted Zope, and that seemed to fix something. thanks for all your help. On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Charlie Jones wrote:

Ok..the suggestions below seem to have worked for installing the libs. I can now run the test scripts that came with SOAPpy with the Zope python interpreter. Now I am trying create some External Methods based off of these test scripts. I am running into a problem. I think it's related to the import statements I am using.

Here's the imports I'm doing for the methods, these are taken directly from the test scripts that run fine against the Zope python interpreter: import os, re import sys from SOAPpy import SOAPProxy

When I try to access the external methods I get the following error from Zope: Error Type: ImportError Error Value: cannot import name SOAPProxy

Other than the import statements above, the only other references to SOAPProxy are in the following form: server = SOAPProxy(SoapEndpointURL, http_proxy=proxy)

The parameter variables are set before this statement. As I mentioned before, running the test scripts against the Zope version of python works fine. Does Zope handle importing differently than python?

Here's the method code I created in the Extensions directory. Creating the External Methods works fine, it's just when I try to access them via dtml. -------------------------------------------------- import os, re import sys from SOAPpy import SOAPProxy

def getTemp(zip): try: proxy_url=os.environ['http_proxy'] phost, pport = re.search('http://([^:]+):([0-9]+)',proxy_url).group(1,2) proxy = "%s:%s" % (phost, pport) except: proxy = None

SoapEndpointURL = 'http://services.xmethods.net:80/soap/servlet/rpcrouter' MethodNamespaceURI = 'urn:xmethods-Temperature'

# Do it inline ala SOAP::LITE, also specify the actually ns

server = SOAPProxy(SoapEndpointURL, http_proxy=proxy) result = server._ns('ns1', MethodNamespaceURI).getTemp(zipcode=zip)

def translate(to, phrase): try: proxy_url=os.environ['http_proxy'] phost, pport = re.search('http://([^:]+):([0-9]+)', proxy_url).group(1,2) proxy = "%s:%s" % (phost, pport) except: proxy = None

server = SOAPProxy("http://services.xmethods.com:80/perl/ soaplite.cgi",http_proxy=proxy) babel = server._ns('urn:xmethodsBabelFish#BabelFish')

result = babel.BabelFish(translationmode = to,sourcedata = phrase)

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Fred Yankowski wrote:

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:23:46PM -0400, Charlie Jones wrote:

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I am trying to create some External Methods in Zope to access some simple web services. I have both these packages working under the default Python installation on my server, but I don't have a clue on how to get them to install in the python setup for Zope.

You should be able to install them in the zope SOFTWARE_HOME and then import and use them as usual (for python programs) from your External Methods. If you installed a binary version of Zope that comes with its own python executable, you could do this to install the software:

cd some_distutils_compatible_python_package /usr/local/Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86/bin/python setup.py install

If you are running some other python executable, you can add command line arguments to the above 'install' command to direct it to install the software into the Zope SOFTWARE_HOME. Or you could let it install in that python's default library -- it's all the same as far as being importable into an External Method.

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