This is not specific to zope-mozilla so copying to the zope list. Please continue this thread only on the zope list. Amos' article on xml.com about xml-rpc with Zope is an excellent introduction for beginners: http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/01/xmlrpc/index.html About your problem: sorry I don't know what's going wrong there. I urge you to try the examples in the above article. HTH, Shalabh Qingjuan Guan wrote:

Hi all, I am a starter for the Zope stuff. Right now I am trying to figure out how the xml-rpc work here is the example I have tried but doesn't seem quite get it, could somebody tell me what I did wrong with this?

import xmlrpclib

def getStateName(self): "Returns a state name given an integer state number" server_url="http://betty.userland.com" server=xmlrpclib.Server(server_url) return server.example.getStateName(41)

I know the return value from the server should be good. The error message from python seems point the finger to the parse_response function in xmlrpclib.py. I am not quite familiar with python, could somebody point out what causing the problem here? Or, if I want some more info about this xml-rpc stuff, where can I found more examples?

Thanks.