Re: unicode value

[<mi...@st...>]

Alain Spineux wrote:
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> On 5/24/07, *Michael Ströder* <mi...@st...
> <mailto:mi...@st...>> wrote:
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>     Alain Spineux wrote:
>     >
>     > On 5/24/07, Michael Ströder <mi...@st...
>     <mailto:mi...@st...>> wrote:
>     >>
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>     And how about specials like '*' and '+' in attrlist? 
> 
> Thanks for showing me my ignorance. I was not knowing about * and + !
> Easy, only named attributes will be converted!
> In this case maybe is it possible to use [ '*', u'givenName', u'sn' ]
> to convert only 'givenName' and 'sn'

But then you will not gain much! Still the application has to know which
attributes have to be converted. => It's not worth hiding the conversion
within python-ldap.

>     > I'start writin a wrapper for search() and modify() now.
>     >
>     > I send you my results as soon a possible.
> 
>     I'm not too keen to incorporate Unicode patches in python-ldap's
>     low-level API...
> 
> not low-level
> 
> Here is my work on progress
> 
> class UnicodeLDAPObject(LDAPObject):

Sorry, I consider ldap.ldapobject to be low-level.

The only clean solution would be something involving LDAP schema processing!

Ciao, Michael.