return values from result() - number or string?

[Erik F. <for...@ce...>]

Hi!

My world just turned upside down. I've been using asynchronous
python-ldap with code that looks something like this, for a long time:

import ldap
ldapconn = ldap.initialize(uri)
searchsid = ldapconn.search(base, scope, filter, attrlist)

while 1:
  (code, data) = ldapconn.result(msgid=searchsid, all=0)
  if ldap.RES_SEARCH_RESULT == code:
    break

This has worked very well. Until today, on a Novell Linux Desktop 9,
with a python-ldap package borrowed from SLES9, with rpm package
version python-ldap-2.0.0pre19-75.1.

In that package, ldap.RES_SEARCH_RESULT was 'RES_SEARCH_RESULT' and
code was 101.

In all other python-ldap packages I've seen, the
ldap.RES_SEARCH_RESULT has always been a number (101). The code
returned from ldapconn.result has also always been a number. Both are
numbers in my Debian-packaged python2.3-ldap 2.0.4-1.

Am I confused? Has there been an API change that I've missed? Is the
SuSE package terribly wrong? (could be a problem caused by the running
of a SLES9 package on top of NLD9, but still very odd)

Regards,
\EF  
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