Python recipes

This is a “recipe book” of things that can be done using the ezldap Python API. These examples all assume that you’ve imported the ezldap package like so:

import ezldap

You must run ezldap config on the command-line before the package will work.

Bind to a directory

Anonymous bind

connection = ezldap.Connection('ldap:///')

Bind using your credentials in ~/.ezldap

connection = ezldap.auto_bind()

Bind manually

connection = ezldap.Connection('ldap:///', user='cn=someuser,dc=example,dc=com',
    password='password')

Unbind from a directory

connection.unbind()

Recommended workflow

Though it is possible to define a connection and later unbind. It is often easier to just use the with keyword, that will unbind for you.

with ezldap.auto_bind() as con:
    # do something with the "con" connection

(More documentation is on its way here, taking a break for now…)