Re: Python-LDAP-dev digest, Vol 1 #876 - 1 msg

[Brian B. <ex...@gm...>]

> From: Bertrand Croq <ber...@fr...>
> To: pyt...@li...
> Subject: escape_dn_chars
>  
> Hi,
>   I wasn't able to find a function to escape chars in DN strings, so I
> wrote this one (based on escape_filter_chars):
> 
> def escape_dn_chars(s):
>         s =3D s.replace('\\', r'\5C')
>         s =3D s.replace(',', r'\2C')
>         s =3D s.replace('=3D', r'\3D')
>         s =3D s.replace('+', r'\2B')
>         return s
>

Alternatively, wouldn't using urllib.quote do nearly the same thing? 
The only difference I notice is that quote uses a % as an escape
character instead of \.  That's easily changed...

s = urllib.quote(s).replace('%', r'\')

Or is there something about LDAP URIs that I'm missing?


-- 
Brian Beck
Adventurer of the First Order