On 2007-05-31, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * (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...
I would probably generate a DOT file to get a 2D visualization. DOT is part of Graphviz (graphviz.org), and there are quite a few graphviz front-ends available in Python to make DOT generation easier (pydot, yapgvb, and probably a few others). Albert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
