modify_s

[Michael Ströder]

Vitaliyi wrote:
> I found out that ldap.modify_s behaves strangely, at least from my
> point of view:
> 
> l.modify_s(dn,[(ldap.MOD_REPLACE,'someAttr',str(whatever))])
> will drop attribute,

You SHOULD NOT use this form because attributes are most times supposed
to be multi-valued.

> but with list  ([str(whatever)]), parameter do as expected.

You SHOULD implement it with list.

It was a bad design decision to even accept strings.

Ciao, Michael.