* (31 May 2007 12:15:48 -0700) > On May 31, 12:44 pm, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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". > > 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.
I already have the LDAP output part working - with python-ldap under Cygwin - and I generate HMTL output with markup.py. Pretty simple. But a tree structure output would be even prettier... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
