Philip Swann wrote at 2003-2-1 00:05 -0800:

I am going round in circles trying to grasp the semantics of "wrappers". Why do they have this special name? Are they a relative of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland? A wrapper is an object that sits between and application and an object and controls access to this object. It "wrap's" this object.

Read the "Acquisition" section of <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html> to learn about the Acquisition Wrappers widely used in Zope. Dieter