complex "search_s" filter

[Timothy W. <wi...@vi...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm making good progress implementing Jeffrey Shell's ZLDAP product. I've
got it printing an employee directory using data from our NDS server. I've
read David Leonard's "Python LDAP Module Reference," but there are a couple
things I don't understand.

1. What's the syntax for doing more complex filtering of search results in a
"search_s" operation. I saw the reference to BNF in David's docs, and I had
to look up what BNF meant. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out
how to filter my searches for two different attribute variables
simultaneously. Would someone be kind enough to provide a couple concrete
examples. Here's the type of thing I'm looking for:

Filter for --> objectclass=person AND sn=Wilson

It looks like once I understand the "and," the "or" and "not" should be
obvious.

2. Is there any way to sort the results of the search other than doing a
separate python operation of the search result. (I haven't tried it, but I
assume you could have python sort the results.)

Thanks in advance for any help. I think I'm going to be using python-ldap
quite a bit.

-Tim

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