Ahah, there it is. You have mistaken the mysql-python module for something that zope uses. It does, but not from there. Your ZMysqlDA is the zope product that sits in lib/python/Products/ directory and follows the load init.py on startup. The Mysql-Python is a different type of beast that supplies python with the .pys for mysql access. Zope does use it too, but that was what I was trying to explain When compiling Mysql-Python, it looks for your $pythonhomedir and then appends the path with where it wants to go. If you install Zope from binary, often there is a python executable only for zope (for windows at least). The Zope binary install is designed to run from the box unlike a source installation that will use the resident machine's python homedir which usually is in /usr/local/somewhere (i think). So Mysql-python, like I said sticks a few _mysql thingies into the python/site-packages directory. You have to worry about two things now. 1) Where is my python being loaded from? 2) Did I compile the Mysql-python correctly and where did the compiled files goto? Extrapolate the answers from both and you should a) know where to find the compiled files and b) where to put them for your zope. I hope I didnt confuse you more, but it was a pain for me as well. I did end up getting it by almost luck by copying the _mysql* to various places in the Zope/lib/python dir. You can use the verbose option when compiling the mysql-python first, and then you can use the -D in Zope/start file to see whats going on further. Cheers, Paz -----Original Message----- From: Horst Wald [mailto:horstwald@hotmail.com] Sent: 07 June 2001 15:17 To: paz@oratrix.com Cc: zope@zope.org; website-talk-admin@list.ora.com Subject: RE: [Zope] one step closer to connecting Zope to MySQL Hi! Do a find for the

_mysql* (dont actually think there is a _mysql like that but other files with an appendation) and then you can try putting with the operative python

I already did. I have no _mysql or _mysql.so, only ./usr/zope/lib/python/Products/MySQL-python-0.3.5/_mysql_const ./usr/zope/lib/python/Products/MySQL-python-0.3.5/_mysqlmodule.c the first of which is a directory and the second a C-source-file (so both are not the ones I need) Do I really have to install Zope from binary? Can't I just download that stupid _mysql or _mysql.so file from somewhere and place it in blablabla/python1.5/site-packages? Horst _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.