Python-ldap on windows

[Michael Ströder]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> I had mixed windows binaries
> with current CVS code.

The Win32 binaries are probably build against old Umich libs. There
is no recent version of python-ldap linked against OpenLDAP 2 libs
for native Win32 (only cygwin). python-ldap based on Umich libs does
not provide support for SSL or StartTLS.

> BTW: What I'm trying to do is to write a Python script which
> imports a csv file (exported from a database we have here with
> contact information: name, address, email, telphone number...)
> into a LDAP server. Is there any previous work which could help
> me getting started?

IMHO there's a csv module for Python. You should map the table
columns to attributes and build an entry dictionary. You can either
write this to the LDAP server by converting the entry's dict with
ldap.modlist.addModlist() to a modify list you can directly pass to
add_s() method or diff against existing entries with
ldap.modlist.modifyModlist().
Hmm, module ldap.modlist is only available in recent CVS version.
You can extract it from there and back-port it to old version
though. It does not directly rely on something else except some
constants.

You can also create LDIF with module ldif for bulk-upload into your
LDAP server with some command-line tools. Recent version of module
ldif in CVS is also improved.

Ciao, Michael.