[python-ldap] § in passwords

[Michael Ströder]

Andreas Stenius wrote:
> I seem to have run into a bug in python-ldap. I have a user who consistently
> fail to login, but for "everyone" else it works just fine.
> 
> After some troubleshooting, I became aware of his password containing a §-sign.
> [..]
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa7' in position 5:
> ordinal not in range(128)

Yupp.

Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 28 2016, 06:57:42) [GCC] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> u'§'.encode('ascii')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa7' in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
>>> u'§'.encode('utf-8')
'\xc2\xa7'

python-ldap only accepts binary strings.
=> Your application has to invoke .encode('utf-8').

Ciao, Michael.

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