In addition to using ZEO (absolute necessity), here are some other tips for anyone doing out-of-process Zope scripts like this: - Get to know how to deal with transactions in Zope within these out-of-process scripts, because anything you do this way needs to be committed when you are done. Also, using transaction notes to place the undo history in the right place in Zope is a good idea (example below). - To run TTW code objects, you need to be able to: a. Manually create acquisition context for your objects using __of__() b. Create a new SecurityManager using an existing user This is a generic example pieced together from some existing scripts that I have that do this... not entirely tested, but should work: #============================= # An example of putting new content into # a CMF or Plone site in an out-of-process # Zope instance in a Python module: #============================= import Zope from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import newSecurityManager app = Zope.app() CMFSite = app['MyCMFSite'] #Create a security context (to run invokeFactory) # Note: you would also need to do this to run TTW code objects uf = app['acl_users'] zopeuser = uf.getUser('zope').__of__(uf) #user object wrapped in aq context of user folder newSecurityManager(None,zopeuser) #new security manager to help invokeFactory run # also needed to run TTW code (PythonScripts, ZPT, DTML) CMFSite.invokeFactory(id='SomeNewDocument',type_name='Document') obj = CMFSite['SomeNewDocument'] #do stuff to obj to put content in SomeNewDocument... # Run some TTW Python script in a skins folder: skinsfolder = CMFSite['portal_skins']['MySkinsFolder'] scriptobj = skinsfolder['MyScriptName'].__of__(CMFSite) scriptobj('foo') get_transaction().note('/MyCMFSite') #first note, path of object to put undo history on get_transaction().note('Document created and populated with content') #second note, just a description of what was done for the undo tab get_transaction().commit() #==================================== I'm working on putting together an out-of-process Zope howto, which I expect to post in the next week or two on Zope.org, but in the meantime, feel free to email me with any questions. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Maik Jablonski [mailto:maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:14 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Re: Accessing zope through command-line python Mark Gibson wrote:

I understand this:

---- import Zope root=Zope.app() #do stuff now.

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However, if zope is running I receive an error:

File "/home/local/zope_2_6/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 33, in lock_file raise error, ( ZODB.POSException.StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database file. There must be another process that has opened the file.

Is there a way to access a running zope instance in this way?

Hi, you must ZEO for this tasks. Please read the Zope-Book => ZEO-Chapter. A nice Howto is: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/ZODB-How-To -mj -- German Zope User Group (DZUG) - http://www.dzug.org/ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )