Just a thought. About a month ago this would have sounded far fetched, but now that Guido is in the house, when might we expect the Zope Python version to change from 1.5.2 to 2.x? Imho for the book the Python version for Zope should at least be 2.xa1

It seems to me that by the time the book is finalized your team could deliver a basic core Zope 2.x Python 2.x release. My understanding is that its not that big of an issue. I'm sure it would just make the marketing team giddy.

It's probably a little more an issue than you think. Zope is a pretty large codebase and if nothing else, introducing unicode can affect a great many things. Its the sort of thing that needs to be done with a lot of thinking up front. Some work is being done on that, (esp. by Toby Dickenson) but 2.3 won't be the release where Python 2.0 is officially supported / required. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com