Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I had some time today, so I attempted to open the ldif files in binary mode
> to simply
> work with the raw byte strings but the moment the first entry was parsed,
> parse()
> stumbled on a character in the first entries dict and passed a dn of None for
> the last half?
> Note that all modules in python-ldap up to 2.4.10 including module 'ldif'
> expect raw byte strings to be passed as arguments. It seems to me you're
> passing a Unicode object in the entry dictionary which will fail in case an
> attribute value contains NON-ASCII chars.
Yup, I was.
> python-lda
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> After parsing the data for a user I am simply taking a value from the ldif
> file and writing
> it back out to another which fails, the value parsed is:
>
> officestreetaddress:: T3R0by1NZcOfbWVyLVN0cmHDn2UgMQ==
>
>
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\ldif.py", lin
"Joseph L. Casale" writes:
> ...
> After parsing the data for a user I am simply taking a value from the ldif
> file and writing
> it back out to another which fails, the value parsed is:
>
> officestreetaddress:: T3R0by1NZcOfbWVyLVN0cmHDn2UgMQ==
>
>
> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\ldif.p
Hi Michael,
> Processing LDIF is one thing, doing LDAP operations another.
>
> LDIF itself is meant to be ASCII-clean. But each attribute value can carry any
> byte sequence (e.g. attribute 'jpegPhoto'). There's no further processing by
> module LDIF - it simply returns byte sequences.
>
> The a
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> I'm not sure what exactly you're asking for.
>> Especially "is not being interpreted as a string requiring base64 encoding"
>> is
>> written without giving the right context.
>>
>> So I'm just guessing that this might be the usual misunderstandings with use
>> of base64
> I'm not sure what exactly you're asking for.
> Especially "is not being interpreted as a string requiring base64 encoding" is
> written without giving the right context.
>
> So I'm just guessing that this might be the usual misunderstandings with use
> of base64 in LDIF. Read more about when LDI
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> Can you give an example of the code you have?
>
> I actually just overrode the regex used by the method in the LDIFWriter class
> to be far more broad
> about what it interprets as a safe string.
Are you sure that you fully understood RFC 2849 before doing this?
Which
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I have some data I am working with that is not being interpreted as a string
> requiring
> base64 encoding when sent to the ldif module for output.
>
> The base64 string parsed is ZGV0XDMzMTB3YmJccGc= and the raw string is
> det\3310wbb\pg.
> I'll admit my understanding
> Can you give an example of the code you have?
I actually just overrode the regex used by the method in the LDIFWriter class
to be far more broad
about what it interprets as a safe string. I really need to properly handle
reading, manipulating and
writing non ascii data to solve this...
Shame
Can you give an example of the code you have?
> From: jcas...@activenetwerx.com
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Ldap module and base64 oncoding
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:01 +
>
> I have some data I am working with that is not being interpre
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