why didn't it work?

[Michael Ströder]

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.