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python-ldap Docs

The project file release area has the latest 'official' released documentation packages as HTML (tar.gz or zip) and PDF for off-line reading.

See current file CHANGES for a reading about latest improvements and fixes.

The following documents referenced are not written by project members. Therefore some information might be outdated or links might be broken.

Python LDAP Applications: Part 1 - Installing and Configuring the Python-LDAP Library and Binding to an LDAP Directory: This also covers SASL.
LDAP Programming in Python: Another article for getting started with python-ldap.
Using LDAP from Java+Tomcat and Python+Zope: Includes ready-to-use worked examples to connect to an eDirectory sandbox via LDAP, Java or Python for non-encrypted and encrypted (SSL) connections.
Short introduction to python-ldap programming: The text begins with "Using the python-ldap module is pretty easy.".
RFC1823: The LDAP Application Program Interface, mainly for LDAPv2.
LDAPEXT: Discontinued IETF working group which also tried to define a LDAP C API standard. draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-04 is of interest here since the OpenLDAP 2 libs implement this (expired) draft.
OpenLDAP: It's worth to have a look at the manual pages and the Developer's FAQ.
BLITS: Basic LDAP Interoperability Test Suite.