[Schmidt, Allen J]

We have a Python program that reads a URL, rips it apart and dumps the pieces into an ODBC connected database. Works fine from the command line.

If we try to add this into Zope as an External Method, it states it cannot find the dbi component. import dbi uses a dbi.dll in Windows.

This was developed on 2.1 Python but the dbi module exists in Zopes 1.52 Python so I am not sure where the problem is.

Your development installation of python probably has a different python path than the Zope installation, that's why it isn't being found. You need to add its location to the python path that Zope uses, one way or another. Use its location in you development tree as a guide,a nd try to put in in the equivalent location in Zope. You can add to the Zope search path by: 1) Adding a set pythonpath=... statement to the batch file that starts Zope 2) add a xxx.pth file to the Zope python directory - put the path to the file on a single line in the .pth file 3) Hack z2.py to add the path to sys.path Or you can try copying the file to the python library directory where other similar files already live. Of course, what you do will depend on how the existing code specifies the location of the dbi.dll, but this should be enough for you to work it out. One final possibility is that Zope is finding the version compiled for Python 2.1. You would get some kind of an import error if that happens. You have to make sure that your external method is using the version compiled for Python 1.5.2. Cheers, Tom P