[ Dylan Reinhardt]

I'm not sure if I can explain _all_ of what you're seeing here... you seem to be having a different error than you were before and I don't have any experience with the sping module.

But... do have something to recommend. Use:

def run(self, fileID, lines):

to define your external method.

The first argument passed to an external method is the "self" object, a reference to the context from which the method was called.

Aren't you mixing up Python scripts with External Methods? I have never included a 'self' parameter in any of my external methods and they work just fine. Cheers, Tom P