why didn't it work?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

i'm very surprised. i was under the impression that it was just the other 
way around: importing _ldap was the canonical way and importing ldap only 
existed for backwards compatibility.

i'm confused.

jens


On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 10:29 , Michael Ströder wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>
>> i'm getting complaints about this from people who use some of my products
>> that rely on python-ldap. one guy uses a CVS checkout from january 4th. 
>> is
>> the CVS version hosed?
>
> Don't import _ldap. Despite some code examples this was never good
> practice.
>
>> if I try to call the "_ldap.open" function, it fails :
>> module _ldap does not have such function.
>
> Yes.
>
>>>>> can you import "ldap"?
>> Yes, I can, and I can call functions "ldap.open", "ldap.bind_s", etc.
>> *******
>
> There's no reason to import _ldap. Don't do that. Everything's
> wrapped correctly in module ldap.ldapobject.
>
> Ciao, Michael.