[Zope] command line Zope?

[Erik Enge]

[Kyler B. Laird]

| In order to provide this, I need a way to run Python such that it
| connects to the ZODB (perhaps requiring ZEO?) and gives the user
| access to the database only as a specified user (with the option of
| manually authenticating to receive additional roles).

Yes, you can use XML-RPC¹.  For superuser only usage, you also have
the medusa debugger (or Zope monitor)².  And you also have ZopeShell³.

¹ <URL:http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/XML-RPC>
² <URL:http://www.zope.org/Members/teyc/howtoMonitorClient>
³ <URL:http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/zopeshell>