[Zope] Help with ZODB Howto?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Holdsworth [mailto:sh@onyx.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:12 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Help with ZODB Howto?
> 
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> Firstly I want to reproduce the functionality of a simple 
> database that I have
> written in Python using the shelve module. To this end I've 
> read up on ZODB and
> looked at the existing Howto. For experimenting, using the 
> file storage method
> is fine. I'm assuming that I can test the code in the Howto 
> running it outside
> of the Zope environment as standalone Python (after 
> correcting the closing
> bracket typo and adding some wrapper code of course). 
> Unfortunately this fails
> miserably 

How does it fail 'miserably'?  Others have had success with the How-To,
although I admit it could use some editorial polish.

-Michel