I'm mildly experienced at Zope, yet haven't found the 'simple' way to execute the following. I been going in circles on this and all suggestions as to how to approach the problem would be appreciated. Rather than correct the approaches I have been trying, I think it best to get a fresh perspective. Big Picture Objective: User FTPs a batch of files into an empty zope folder along with a text document called contents.txt. contents.txt has one line per uploaded file in CSV or similar parseable layout that begins with the file name. After the upload, the user triggers a posting process (a 'process the upload' form buttom with Action=Do_It(). The executed Do_it object reads the text file and loops once per line, for each line, it parses it into a file name and several attributes. The object then writes the uploaded file content to a target folder as a zope object having these attributes. I am stuck at looping on and parsing the content of the contents.txt file to get and pass the attributes to the add object method. I figure the solution is best executed with Python in the context of Zope, but I'm stuck at figuring out the syntax for this namespace. 1) syntax to loop on the content of a file, one line at a time. 2) string syntax to parse the line into variables (I don't think an array is needed.) 3) modify object syntax to update each file's attributes with the variables (or add a new object such as an image object with the imported file's contents.) Suggestions, syntax, or pointers to how-tos all gratefully accepted. Thank you! Gary