ldap3 is a strictly RFC 4511 conforming LDAP V3 pure Python client. The same codebase works with Python, Python 3, PyPy and PyPy3.

This project was formerly named python3-ldap. The name has been changed to avoid confusion with the python-ldap library.

Project home page is https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3

Documentation is available at http://ldap3.readthedocs.org

The ldap3 project is open source software released under the LGPL v3 license.

ldap3 is PEP8 compliant, except for line length.

Package download is available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ldap3.

Install with pip install ldap3

You can download the latest source at https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3

Continuous integration for testing is at https://travis-ci.org/cannatag/ldap3

You can submit support tickets on https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3/issues/new

• Ilya Etingof, the author of the pyasn1 package for his excellent work and support.
• Mark Lutz for his Learning Python and Programming Python excellent books series and John Goerzen and Brandon Rhodes for their book Foundations of Python Network Programming. These books are wonderful tools for learning Python and this project owes a lot to them.
• JetBrains for donating to this project the Open Source license of PyCharm 3 Professional.
• GitHub for providing the free source repository space and the tools I use to develop this project.
• The Python Software Foundation for providing support for the test lab infrastructure.

For information and suggestions you can contact me at cannatag@gmail.com or you can also a support ticket on https://github.com/cannatag/ldap3/issues/new

• 0.9.8.5.post2 2015.06.24

  • Updated pyasn1 to 0.1.8
  • Fixed error in not filter with pyasn1 0.1.8

• 0.9.8.5 2015.06.23

  • Updated docs with ldap operations pages
  • Fixed a bug where an Exception was raised on OpenBSD for missing IPV4_MAPPED flag
  • Fixed missing add operation usage metrics
  • Abstract Attribute doesn't permit "falsy" values or None as default (thanks Lucas)

• 0.9.8.4 2015.05.19

  • Added EXTENDED log detail level with prettyPrint description of ldap messages
  • fixed logging of IPv6 address description
  • fixed checking of open address when dns returns more than one ip for the same host
  • fixed selection of proper address when failing back from IPv6 to IPv4 and vice-versa
  • when sending controls controlValue is now optional (as stated in RFC 4511), specify None to not send it
  • moved badges to shields.io

• 0.9.8.3 2015.05.11

  • Added support for logging
  • Added LDAPInvalidTlsSpecificationError exception
  • Added support for kerberos sasl - needs the gssapi package (thanks sigmaris and pefoley2)
  • Added support for using generator objects in ldap operations (thanks Matt)
  • Fixed bug in collect_usage (thanks Philippe)
  • Changed default server mode from IP_SYSTEM_DEFAULT to IP_V6_PREFERRED

• 0.9.8.2 2015.04.08

  • SaslCred returned as raw bytes (thanks Peter)
  • search_paged now properly works in abstract.reader (thanks wazboy)

• 0.9.8.1 2015.04.04

  • Added NTLMv2 authentication method
  • extend.standard.who_am_i() now try to decode the authzid as unicode
  • tests for AD (Active Directory) now use tls_before_bind when opening a connection
  • 0.9.8 not working for pypi problems

• 0.9.7.12 2015.03.18

  • Fixed missing optional authzid in digestMD5 sasl mechanism (thanks Damiano)
  • Changed unneeded classmethods to staticmethods

• 0.9.7.11 2015.03.12

  • Fixed address_info resolution on systems without the IPV4MAPPED flag (thanks Andryi)

• 0.9.7.10 2015.02.28

  • Fixed bug in PagedSearch when server has a hard limit on the number of entries returned (thanks Reimar)
  • 0.9.7.9 not working for pypi problems
  • 0.9.7.8 not working for pypi problems
  • 0.9.7.7 not working for pypi problems
  • 0.9.7.6 not working for pypi problems

• 0.9.7.5 2015.02.20

  • Fixed exception raised when opening a connection to a server. If there is only one candidate address and there is an error it returns the specific Exception, not a generic LDAPException error
  • Address_info filters out any impossible address to reach
  • Address_info include an IPV4MAPPED address for IPV6 host that try to reach an IPV4 only server
  • Added SyncMock strategy (needs the sldap3 package)
  • Fixed bug when using the aproximation operation in ldap search operations (thanks Laurent)
  • Removed response from exception raised with raise_exceptions=True to avoid very long exceptions message

• 0.9.7.4 2015.02.02

  • Added connection.entries property for storing response from search operations as and abstract.Entry collection.

• 0.9.7.3 2015.01.25

  • Modify operation type can also be passed as integer

• 0.9.7.2 2015.01.16

  • Fixed a bug when resolving IP address with getaddrinfo(). On OSX returned an UDP connection (thanks Hiroshi).

• 0.9.7.1 2015.01.05

  • Moved to Github
  • Moved to Travis-CI for continuous integration
  • Moved to ReadTheDocs for documentation
  • Moved testing servers in the cloud, to allow testing from Travis-CI
  • Project renamed from python3-ldap to ldap3 to avoid name clashing with the existing python-ldap library
  • Constant values in ldap3 are now strings. This is helpful in testing and debugging
  • Test suite fully refactored to be used in cloud lab and local development lab
  • Test suite includes options for testing against eDirectory, Active Directory and OpenLDAP

Previous versions changelog is available at http://pythonhosted.org//python3-ldap/changelog.html