I have a server that provides access to a database in the usual way, using adbapi to talk to an MSSQL server. Now, I'm facing the need to create an application that can access the server directly. (In addition to, not instead of.) In the spirit of "write it once", I'd like to be able to "import" the server's database read/write methods into a module in the application, possibly driven by a reactor of some sort. In this case, there'd be no client/server protocol, just calls from other modules in the application. I realize that this is pretty vague; I'm still in the process of conceptualizing it. I'm looking for any advice that might help avoid the all-too-obvious approach of copying code and performing surgery on it, with the all-too-well-known drawbacks. Thanks for any good words, -- Don Dwiggins Advanced Publishing Technology