python ldap recursive

[Michael Ströder]

tekion wrote:
> I know perl Net::LDAP could do a recursive search call to LDAP.

I don't know perl's Net::LDAP and therefore I'm not sure what you mean with
"recursive search call". Personally I'd associate that with recursively
processing LDAP tree structure.

> What I am running into with Python LDAP on the search call is that I would 
> l have to wait for the search to complete to get the result.  Where as with
> Perl recursive search call,  I would get the result (not the completed
> result) back while the search is still running.

In case you're using http://www.python-ldap.org you're probably looking for
the asynchronous search methods:

http://www.python-ldap.org/doc/html/ldap.html#ldap.LDAPObject.search

See general note:

http://www.python-ldap.org/doc/html/ldap.html#sending-ldap-requests

Ciao, Michael.