Distinguished name problem

[Michael Ströder]

Fredrik Melander wrote:
> first of all - I noticed (a bit too late) that this actually is the
> developer-list (although a user-list doesn't seem to exist). I want to
> take the opportunity to thank you for taking time to answer my trivial
> questions in spite of this. Much appreciated!

There's only one low-traffic mailing list python-ldap-dev and therefore
also beginner questions are welcome there. Keep posting questions there.

>> Which documentation? ldap_get_dn() is part of the underlying libldap and
>> you don't have to mess with that yourself.
>>   
> Well, I was referring to the the downloadable pdf at Sourceforge
> (version 2.3.2) which contains this statement:
> "The DN in /dn /is extracted using the underlying ldap_get_dn()
> function, which may raise an exception if the DN is malformed."
> Although admittedly the use of the word "underlying" kind of hinted
> that I wouldn't have to touch this myself, I got a bit confused by
> this...

Hmm, I tried to fix the wording a little bit. Not sure whether that
helps avoiding confusion though.

Ciao, Michael.