generating a tree-like structure

[Thorsten Kampe]

*  (31 May 2007 12:15:48 -0700)
> On May 31, 12:44 pm, Thorsten Kampe <thors... at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> > This is a fairly general question: is there some kind of module or
> > framework that allows building a tree like structure from certain kind
> > of data?
> >
> > To be specific: I have a program that dumps the content of a LDAP
> > directory including all properties and values and groups the result
> > from the LDAP search by objClass.
> >
> > Now I was thinking: would it be possible to generate from the totally
> > unordered output that the LDAP server gives me, a tree like
> > representation that displays the hierarchy (omitting the values or
> > even properties if necessary)?
> >
> > It should be a textual representation of what you see in GUI programs
> > like "LDAP Administrator" but the output should be represented like
> > the "tree" program in Linux or Windows "tree.com".
> 
> I think you might be able to use ElementTree. The website for the
> module claims it can be used for hierarchical data structures:
> http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
> 
> Did you look at any of the Python LDAP tools? They might be useful
> too. See some of the links below:
> http://linuxjournal.com/article/6988
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303336
> 
> Hopefully they'll give some guidance. I've not used LDAP myself as of
> yet.

I already have the LDAP output part working - with python-ldap under 
Cygwin - and I generate HMTL output with markup.py. Pretty simple. But 
a tree structure output would be even prettier...