--------------------------------------- python-ldap: LDAP client API for Python --------------------------------------- What is python-ldap? python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. Mainly it wraps the OpenLDAP client libs for that purpose. Additionally the package contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs, LDAPv3 sub-schema, etc.). Not included: Direct BER support See INSTALL for version compability See TODO for planned features. Contributors welcome. For module documentation, see: http://www.python-ldap.org/ Quick usage example: import ldap l = ldap.initialize("ldap://my_ldap_server.my_domain") l.simple_bind_s("","") l.search_s("o=My Organisation, c=AU", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "objectclass=*") See directory Demo/ of source distribution package for more example code. Author(s) contact and documentation: http://www.python-ldap.org/ If you are looking for help, please try the mailing list archives first, then send a question to the mailing list. Be warned that questions will be ignored if they can be trivially answered by referring to the documentation. If you are interested in helping, please contact the mailing list. If you want new features or upgrades, please check the mailing list archives and then enquire about any progress. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Konstantin Chuguev and Steffen Ries for working on support for OpenLDAP 2.0.x features. Thanks to Michael Stroeder for the modules ldif, ldapurl, ldap/schema/*.py, ldap/*.py and ldap/controls/*.py. Thanks to Hans Aschauer for the C wrapper schema and SASL support. Thanks to Mauro Cicognini for the WIN32/MSVC6 bits, and the pre-built WIN32 ldap.pyd. Thanks to Waldemar Osuch for contributing the new-style docs based on reStructuredText. Thanks to Torsten Kurbad for the easy_install support. Thanks to James Andrewartha for significant contribution to Doc/*.tex. Thanks to Rich Megginson for extending support for LDAPv3 controls and adding support for LDAPv3 extended operations. Thanks to Peter Gietz, DAASI for funding some control modules. Thanks to Chris Mikkelson for various fixes and ldap.syncrepl. These very kind people have supplied patches or suggested changes: Federico Di Gregorio John Benninghoff Donn Cave Jason Gunthorpe gurney_j Eric S. Johansson David Margrave Uche Ogbuji Neale Pickett Blake Weston Wido Depping Deepak Giridharagopal Ingo Steuwer Andreas Hasenack Matej Vela Thanks to all the guys on the python-ldap mailing list for their contributions and input into this package. Thanks! We may have missed someone: please mail us if we have omitted your name. $Id: README,v 1.25 2011/10/26 18:43:21 stroeder Exp $