Leaving a connection open

[Ron T. <Ro...@US...>]

Hi,

I have a few questions about leaving a bound connection open for sharing
(python 2.4.4, python-ldap 2.2.1 - openldap 2.3-2.3.30 on Ubuntu 7.04).

I'm using Async messages is there any benefit to using ReconnectLdapObject?
I noticed that the comments
http://vmspython.dyndns.org/pyhtmldoc/ldap.ldapobject.html said that the
class was intended for synchronous calls.

Is it ok to leave the connection open for long periods like a month?  Is it
realistic to believe that the connection would remain stable and be useable
for production if left open?

Is there a way to tell if the connection died so that I can reconnect a
shared connection if the connection dropped off?  I tried unbind and
whoami_s but got a very nasty memory error after a very long delay.

Thanks for your help!
Ron Teitelbaum