Wow, thanks everyone. (Loren, too.) This was much faster than wading through the tons of help files. At some point we should make some document with searchable index to help people finding this kind of information faster. Right now the documentation is a little bit all over places and hard to use. .......... I have noticed that the external methods are only single-level deep. That is, they have one-word names, e.g: myMethod. This might be a problem in large-scale projects, where it is easy to run into name conflicts. Does anyone know whether internally zope uses the "import myModule" and then internally assembles the "myModule.myMethod()" call, or does it use "from myModule import myFunction"? I mean, has any zope users used method calls like myObject.myInnerObject.myFurtherInnerObject.myMethod()? I guess it's ok for Zope to use "from ... import ..." instead of "import ...". It's just that I am very afraid of name collisions. regards, Hung Jung -----Original Message----- From: Pavlos Christoforou [mailto:pavlos@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 1:57 PM To: Hung Jung Lu Cc: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie: need a simple example of external method Welcome - On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Hung Jung Lu wrote: > > myprogram.py: > > def myfunc(x): > return 2*x; > > How do I proceed to use it in DTML, and how do I > place it in the external methods folder? First go in your Zope management screen and select external method from the available object list. Add an id (lets say testit) add the function name (in your case myfunc) and then the python module file (which should exist in the Extensions directory in the main python distribution. In your case myprogram.py) click add and that's about it. In a DTML method you can call your function by simply calling: <dtml-var "testit(3)"> should print out 6 Pavlos