LDAP/LDIF Parsing

[Cruelemort]

All,

I am hoping someone would be able to help me with a problem. I have an
LDAP server running on a linux box, this LDAP server contains a
telephone list in various groupings, the ldif file of which is -

dn: dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
dc: example
o: Example Organisation

dn: ou=groupa,dc=example,dc=com
ou: groupa
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
description: Group A

dn: cn=johnsmith,ou=groupa,dc=example,dc=com
cn: johnsmith
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
sn: Smith
telephoneNumber: 112

dn: cn=davesteel,ou=groupa,dc=example,dc=com
cn: davesteel
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
sn: Steel
telephoneNumber: 113

dn: ou=groupb,dc=example,dc=com
ou: groupb
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
description: Group B

dn: cn=williamdavis,ou=groupb,dc=example,dc=com
cn: williamdavis
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
sn: Davis
telephoneNumber: 122

dn: cn=jamesjarvis,ou=groupb,dc=example,dc=com
cn: jamesjarvis
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
sn: Jarvis
telephoneNumber: 123

I am creating a python client program that will display the telephone
list in the same directory structure as is on the LDAP server (i.e. it
starts with buttons of all the groups, when you click on a group it
comes up with buttons of all the numbers or groups available, and you
can continually drill down).

I was wondering the best way to do this? I have installed and used the
python-ldap libraries and these allow me to access and search the
server, but the searches always return a horrible nesting of lists,
tuples and dictionaries, below is an example of returning just one
record -

('dc=example,dc=com', {'objectClass': ['top', 'dcObject',
'organization'], 'dc': ['example'], 'o': ['Example Organisation']})

Basically i think i need to parse the search results to create objects
and build the python buttons around this, but i was hoping someone
would be able to point me in the correct direction of how to do this?
Is there a parser available? (there is an ldif library available but
it is not obvious how this works, i cannot see much documentation, and
it seems to be deprecated...).

Many thanks.

Ian