install SOAPpy in your python path. make sure you can use it normally via a script. Create a mini script to do what you want using the following format: filename: /<zope root>/Extensions/<xyz>.py Contents: import SOAPpy #or however SOAPpy should be imported def <function name>(): ..python code that does something with SOAPpy.. return ..python code that returns something.. stuff in <> fill out yourself..removing the <>.. :-) In zope create an external method, give it whatever ID you want and whatever Title you want. The Module name will be whatever you used for <xvy> and the Function name will be whatever you used for <function name>. Now you can "call" the external method from anywhere ... I usually use the URL to test ... so if you named your function "soapy" and it's in your zope root you would access it at http://127.0.0.1:8080/soapy ... Assuming zope is listening on 127.0.0.1:8080 :-) Hope that helps On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:26, Jeffrey Hood wrote:

I am a relative newbie to Zope, and am having a lot of trouble getting the following figured out...

I have a python script that accesses a SOAP service, and it runs fine with SOAPpy... there seems to be no native SOAP support in Zope, and I did find a module on the Zope site for SOAPpy integration, but there are no instructions on how to get it set up, and I don't know how to get the external methods working... I did gather that under Zope/Extensions, you are supposed to be able to put modules, but nothing that I do (putting the SOAPpy dir in there was one thing) gets anything working... I know enough about Python to get the script working under the Python interpreter, but I can't figure out how to get Zope to recognize anything but the simple examples in the tutorial...

Someone must be doing SOAP calls from a Zope page, and I just need pointed in the correct direction...

Any and all help is -greatly- appreciated...

Thanks, JH

Jeffrey Hood jhood - hmcon com

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