Re: opening a connection with more than a single server

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Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
 > ldap.open doesn't have anything to do with this as
 > far as i know.

It has. Please think again.

 > actually, it now even seems to be supporting two ways to
 > get a connection:
 >
 > ldap.open( 'server:port' )
 > ldap.open( 'server', port )

Note: The exact declaration is currently:

def open(host,port=389,trace_level=0,trace_file=sys.stdout):

 > the only item (for this discussion) that i am looking it is the
 > string 'host'. i know that under 1.10 i could do..
 >
 > ldap.open( 'host1 host2 host3' )

Which is not possible with separate key-word parameter _port_ in
function parameter list of ldap.open().

 > assuming they all run on the default port. i'm not interested
 > in non-default ports here.

Are you kidding?

  > don't get me wrong, i am not trying to warm over some ldap.open
  > declaration semantics.

If it's just an interesting thing go and use ldap.initialize() and
we'll close this thread.

Ciao, Michael.