Returning sorted sets

[nick at Brainstorm.co.uk]

This one should really go in the FAQ for LDAP beginners like me :-)

I've implemented an LDAP search interface, but as we know, results are
returned unsorted.  Python doesn't do too badly at this (although I
can't help thinking it would be faster if underlying C routines did
it).  But sorting on the client side becomes problematic in a cgi which
wants to show just 20 results at a time.

Ideally, I want my search interface to return just 20 records at a time,
which are a sorted subset of a larger result set.  Does the LDAP
protocol allow this?  I'm trying to think how else to do a multiple-page
search interface, ala current search engines with the footer

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Any ideas?

Cheers, nick

PS - Thanks for a useful tool.


Michael Ströder wrote:
> 
> Steve Jones wrote:
> >
> > I have just installed the Win32 version of Zope 2.4.0 and it ships with
> > Python 2.1.  Your python-ldap module requires Python2.0 and apparently
> > won't work with python2.1.  Any chance of making a python2.1 verion of
> > the ldap code available?
> 
> Sorry, I just provide the ZIP file for download. I have no Win32
> environment for building python-ldap. Maybe you can convince Mauro
> who did it or another person.
> 
> Ciao, Michael.
> 
>