[Zope] Is it possible to call make odbc calls from an external method?

[tom smith]

hi,

I just created an external method that...

def test(self):
    import sys
    return sys.modules

...and then a DTML method that...

<dtml-in "test().keys()">
<b><dtml-var sequence-item></b><br>
    <dtml-let x=sequence-item>
        <dtml-var expr="dir(x)">
    </dtml-let>
<br><br>
</dtml-in>

...because I was try to get zope to describe itself. What I want to do is
use the odbc stuff from within an external method. Is this possible? And why
doesn't dir(x) in the DTML above work?

thanks

tom