Convert Active Directory Object to string

[Michael Ströder]

Dirk Hagemann wrote:
> 
> What I want to do in the end is the following: I get some data from
> Active Directory, then I create a SQL-statement including this data and
> write this into the database.

Which API and protocol are you using to access Active Directory?

If you access it via LDAP (e.g. using python-ldap) you will get back
UTF-8 strings for textual attributes.

Ciao, Michael.