unicode value

[Alain Spineux]

On 5/23/07, Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> Alain Spineux wrote:
> > Why does python-ldap not convert automatically any unicode string into
> > UTF-8 before
> > to call the raw function ?
> >
> > Is-it by design or just a lack of time ?
>
> Kind of a FAQ. Feel free to propose a patch with a good(!) solution.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=352072&aid=616567&group_id=2072
>
> Being the author of a schema-aware LDAP client based on python-ldap I
> know in how many detail problems you can run into...

They are two problems:

- First, encode data when sending request to ldap server.
 Do you know an drawback to encode any unicode sting into utf-8 ?
-Second, decode data coming back from the server.
 The only function to retrieve data is search(), right ?
 what about the use of this kind of request ?
 ldap_con.search_s(base_dn, ldap.SCOPE_BASE, filter, ['cn', 'mail',
u'givenName', u'sn' ])

 that way, python-lib know that attribute givenName and sn should be
decoded into unicode  string.

Do you see any other problems ?


>
> Ciao, Michael.
>


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