The following example demonstrates how to write LDIF output of an LDAP entry with ldif module.
>>> import sys,ldif >>> entry={'objectClass':['top','person'],'cn':['Michael Stroeder'],'sn':['Stroeder']} >>> dn='cn=Michael Stroeder,ou=Test' >>> ldif_writer=ldif.LDIFWriter(sys.stdout) >>> ldif_writer.unparse(dn,entry) dn: cn=Michael Stroeder,ou=Test cn: Michael Stroeder objectClass: top objectClass: person sn: Stroeder >>>
The following example demonstrates how to parse an LDIF file with ldif module, skip some entries and write the result to stdout.
import sys from ldif import LDIFParser, LDIFWriter skip_dn = ["uid=foo,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com", "uid=bar,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"] class MyLDIF(LDIFParser): def __init__(self, input, output): LDIFParser.__init__(self, input) self.writer = LDIFWriter(output) def handle(self, dn, entry): for i in skip_dn: if i == dn: return self.writer.unparse(dn, entry) parser = MyLDIF(open("input.ldif", 'r'), sys.stdout) parser.parse()