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Export to LDIF

[Wido D. <wid...@gm...>]

Is it possible that the LDIFWriter class can be extended to return the
LDIF string and don't write it to a file handler? This is useful if
you want to save the content to a resource which is not accessible
with a file handler.
In my case I have created something like 'smart' LDAP objects for
Luma. They are aware of the server schemas and provide functions which
go beyond the data structure provided by python-ldap. One function of
these objects is the ability to export its own data into LDIF format.
An instance has control over all data entries and collects the LDIF
strings to export the data into a file. But in the future other
resource should be implemented, like access to KDE io-slaves.
Somehow I feel uncomfortable doing the LDIF encoding stuff myself and
I thought python-ldap is the ideal place to implement this
functionality.

Thanks in advance,
  Wido
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Re: Export to LDIF

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

Wido Depping wrote:
> Is it possible that the LDIFWriter class can be extended to return the
> LDIF string and don't write it to a file handler? This is useful if
> you want to save the content to a resource which is not accessible
> with a file handler.

Use StringIO or for that.

try:
   from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
   from StringIO import StringIO

...

Ciao, Michael.

Re: Export to LDIF

[Wido D. <wid...@gm...>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:04:05 +0100, Michael Str=F6der
<mi...@st...> wrote:
> Wido Depping wrote:
> > Is it possible that the LDIFWriter class can be extended to return the
> > LDIF string and don't write it to a file handler? This is useful if
> > you want to save the content to a resource which is not accessible
> > with a file handler.
>=20
> Use StringIO or for that.
>=20
> try:
>    from cStringIO import StringIO
> except ImportError:
>    from StringIO import StringIO

Thanks for the tip. Initially I was searching for something like this,
but wasn't successfull. Maybe I need to get to know the python
standard library even more :)

mfg.
  Wido
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