[Zope] Accessing zope through command-line python

[Mark Gibson]

I understand this:

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import Zope
root=Zope.app()
#do stuff now.

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However, if zope is running I receive an error:


   File "/home/local/zope_2_6/lib/python/ZODB/lock_file.py", line 33, 
in lock_file
     raise error, (
ZODB.POSException.StorageSystemError: Could not lock the database 
file.  There must be
another process that has opened the file.

Is there a way to access a running zope instance in this way?

Thanks,
Mark