[python-ldap] Latest version 2.5.2 does not pip install properly

[Petr Viktorin]

On 11/30/2017 05:30 PM, Carl Nobile wrote:
> OK, great. Looks like it will be out before our project needs to go to 
> prod next October. (I work for Cisco)
> I'll continue using pyldap for now then update my requirements file later.
> Can I rely on the basic usage remaining the same between the two 
> packages? Any major changes that could break code?

Yes, basic usage will remain the same.

The big change from python-ldap 2.5.x will be around bytes/text 
handling. See here:

     http://python-ldap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bytes_mode.html

If you're updating from pyldap, this should not affect you.


> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com 
> <mailto:encukou at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/30/2017 05:23 PM, Carl Nobile wrote:
> 
>         Petr,
> 
>         Right, I need to use python 3. It looks like pyldap work fine
>         with python 3, when will that code be merged into python-ldap?
> 
> 
>     It's merged in the development branch. Expect a beta release next week.
> 
> 
>         Thanks
> 
> 
>         On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Petr Viktorin
>         <pviktori at redhat.com <mailto:pviktori at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:pviktori at redhat.com <mailto:pviktori at redhat.com>>> wrote:
> 
>              On 11/30/2017 05:04 PM, Carl Nobile wrote:
> 
>                  Hi all,
> 
>                  I'm trying to install python-ldap-2.5.2 in a virtual
>         environment
>                  and I get the error below. Has the `ConfigParser`
>         package been
>                  left out of the setup file's `install_requires` argument?
> 
> 
>              Hello!
>              The ConfigParser module is part of Python's standard
>         library; it
>              should always be available.
> 
>              Maybe you're trying with Python 3? python-ldap-2.5.2 only
>         supports
>              Python 2.7. (But a python3-compatible version is in the works.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                  Collecting python-ldap (from -r requirements/base.txt
>         (line 34))
>                      Using cached python-ldap-2.5.2.tar.gz
>                        Complete output from command python setup.py
>         egg_info:
>                        Traceback (most recent call last):
>                          File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>                          File
>         "/tmp/pip-build-n7bi9m4s/python-ldap/setup.py",
>                  line 9, in <module>
>                            from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
>                        ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
>                        ----------------------------------------
>                  Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error
>         code 1 in
>                  /tmp/pip-build-n7bi9m4s/python-ldap/
> 
> 
>              --     Petr Viktorin
> 
> 

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Petr Viktorin