Re: LDAP sorting routines

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Marc Balmer wrote:
> 
> OpenLDAP specifies a set of functions to sort a result set:
> 
> ldap_sort_entries(),  ldap_sort_values(), and ldap_sort_strcasecmp()

These are helper functions used for sorting at the client side. IMO only 
useful for client applications implemented in C.

> I did not find these functions in the documentation of python-ldap.  Is 
> there a reason they are not available in python?  Could they be added?

It does not make sense to wrap these functions since client-side sorting 
of complete search result sets can be easily achieved by a couple of 
lines of Python code.

Support for server-side sorting together is a different story.

Ciao, Michael.