generate and parse LDIF data (see RFC 2849).
Project description
This is a fork of the ldif module from python-ldap with python3/unicode support.
One of its benefits is that it’s a pure-python package (you don’t depend on the libldap2-dev (or similar) package that needs to be installed on your laptop / test machine / production server.
See the first entry in CHANGES.rst for a more complete list of differences.
This package only support Python 3 (>= 3.6, actually).
Usage
Parse LDIF from a file (or BytesIO):
from ldif import LDIFParser from pprint import pprint parser = LDIFParser(open('data.ldif', 'rb')) for dn, entry in parser.parse(): print('got entry record: %s' % dn) pprint(record)
Write LDIF to a file (or BytesIO):
from ldif import LDIFWriter writer = LDIFWriter(open('data.ldif', 'wb')) writer.unparse('mail=alice@example.com', { 'cn': ['Alice Alison'], 'mail': ['alice@example.com'], 'objectclass': ['top', 'person'], })
Unicode support
The stream object that is passed to parser or writer must be an ascii byte stream.
The spec allows to include arbitrary data in base64 encoding or via URL. There is no way of knowing the encoding of this data. To handle this, there are two modes:
By default, the LDIFParser will try to interpret all values as UTF-8 and leave only the ones that fail to decode as bytes. But you can also pass an encoding of None to the constructor, in which case the parser will not try to do any conversion and return bytes directly.
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