[python-ldap] Patch: ldap.syncrepl UUID constructors use bytes (Python 3 compatbility)

[Michael Ströder]

Karl Kornel wrote:
> The problem is this: In Python 3, the UUID class constructor’s “bytes” input requires
> that you provide a bytes object.
> [..]
> This patch also works on test code I have in development
> (https://github.com/akkornel/syncrepl), running on Python 2.7 with python-ldap 2.4.38.
> But, I understand that you might not want to accept this until the t_syncrepl.py is
> more complete.

Thanks for your submission.

AFAIK the built-in function bytes() was introduced in Python 2.6. So unfortunately this
raises a question about back-ward compability to older Python versions.

Which versions of Python 2.x still have to be supported by today's python-ldap?

Yes, I know. We could do something like:

try:
    bytes
except NameError:
    bytes = str

But I'm not sure whether it makes sense to add compability kludges into python-ldap.

Ciao, Michael.

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