Python parts of module ldap

[Michael Ströder]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> 
> As already announced I'd like to contribute some of my LDAP-related
> Python modules to python-ldap.
> 
> But I don't want to pollute the module name space with a lot of
> separate names. Therefore I'd suggest that we turn the module ldap
> into a directory-based module package adding more sub-modules later.
> 
> ldap/__init__.py would import all symbols from _ldap for the sake of
> backward compability (like ldap.py already does today).
> 
> Comments?

Hmm, following-up on my own request.

After checking in some of my modules below Lib/ldap/ I noticed a
serious drawback:
All modules are dependent on availability of OpenLDAP 2 libs if
located under Lib/ldap/ because of the "from _ldap import *" done in
Lib/ldap/__init__.py.

But I'm also using some of my modules separately on platforms where
the OpenLDAP 2 libs are not available. This affects mostly the
modules ldapurl, ldif, upcoming module dsml and upcoming module
containing generic filter classes. The only solution I have at the
moment is to make a new directory-based module package under Lib/ or
a new project.

Any opinions?

Ciao, Michael.