Any example of Server/Client Side Sorting?

[Michael Ströder]

Zhang Huangbin wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> 100+ entries are not so many. So you could try sorting the list of
>> search results retrieved with LDAPObject.ldap_search_ext_s() by invoking
>> list method .sort(). Make sure you understand how to control the
>> comparisons.
>>
>> See item 8. here:
>> http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#index-591
>>   
> 
> No idea yet. Any example? 

Bear in mind search results returned by synchronous search methods are
in a list of 2-tuples each consisting of the DN string and the entry
dictionary like this:

[(dn,entry)]

Without testing just as food for thought:

Compare function for case-insensitive comparison of the DN:

cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x[0].lower(), y[0}.lower())

Compare function for case-insensitive comparison of the first attribute
value of 'cn' (this would choke with KeyError exception if there's no
attribute 'cn' in the entry):

cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x[1]['cn'][0].lower(), y[1]['cn'][0].lower())

And then results.sort(cmp). I don't know how fast this is though.

The rest of the homework is up to you. For various list sorting aspects
you should ask in news:comp.lang.python

Ciao, Michael.