Type Problem with Exception Handler Error Messages

[Richard H. <hol...@os...>]

Dear Michael,

I've ran into a problem with the way the exception handler error messages are 
returned by python-ldap.

I'm trying to print exception handler error messages using the following:

try:
        l.simple_bind_s(login_dn, login_pw)
except ldap.LDAPError, e:
        print "BINDFAILED", e
        sys.exit(1)

But it doesn't work as expected.  Here's what I get:

BINDFAILED {'desc': "Can't contact LDAP server"}

This is because your exception handler returns e is an instance of a 
dictionary, so I have to do the following:

try:
        l.simple_bind_s(login_dn, login_pw)
except ldap.LDAPError, e:
        print "BINDFAILED", e.args[0]['desc']
        sys.exit(1)

To get:

BINDFAILED Can't contact LDAP server

The exception handler in IO is a bit more straight forward.

This example:

try:
        input = open("config.txt","r")
except IOError, e:
        print "CONFIGFILEERROR", e
        sys.exit(1)

yields the following:

CONFIGFILEERROR [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'config.txt'

Thanks!

Rick