On May 31, 12:44 pm, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a fairly general question: is there some kind of module or > framework that allows building a tree like structure from certain kind > of data? > > To be specific: I have a program that dumps the content of a LDAP > directory including all properties and values and groups the result > from the LDAP search by objClass. > > Now I was thinking: would it be possible to generate from the totally > unordered output that the LDAP server gives me, a tree like > representation that displays the hierarchy (omitting the values or > even properties if necessary)? > > It should be a textual representation of what you see in GUI programs > like "LDAP Administrator" but the output should be represented like > the "tree" program in Linux or Windows "tree.com". > > Any ideas appreciated... > > Thorsten
I think you might be able to use ElementTree. The website for the module claims it can be used for hierarchical data structures: http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm Did you look at any of the Python LDAP tools? They might be useful too. See some of the links below: http://linuxjournal.com/article/6988 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303336 Hopefully they'll give some guidance. I've not used LDAP myself as of yet. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
