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

• 0.9.7.10 2015.02.28

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