Python-LDAP provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. Mainly it wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose.

Additionally the package contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs, LDAPv3 schema, etc.).


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Requirements:

· Python
· OpenLDAP

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· OpenLDAP 2.4.11 or later is now required to build the modules.
· Support for extracting LDAPv3 extended controls in LDAP_RES_SEARCH_ENTRY responses was added along with generic support for LDAPv3 extended operations.
· A new class API was provided in ldap.controls, with new control classes.
· Some require pyasn1 and pyasn1_modules.
· A new ldap.logger helper module was included.
· There were also some fixes and code cleanups.