On 03/07/2011 11:19 AM, Michael Ströder wrote: > Rich Megginson wrote: >> RHEL does not include pyasn1. But it is extremely useful for >> extops/controls - doing BER codec by hand is not fun. > Yupp! > >> A mid-way >> approach would be to expose the liblber ber_scanf/ber_printf and support >> functions in python. > Also an idea we already had. But I'm not a C programmer. So I'll stay away > from that myself. > > But I will happily add a nice Python layer on top of your code. ;-} > Make the C wrapper code as lean as possible. The biggest problem I see is how to pass in arguments to the varadic functions ber_scanf and ber_printf from python without completely rewriting those functions to accept an array of format specifiers and a corresponding array of values/pointers. It may be easier to just bite the bullet and add pyasn1 . . . >> If you do decide that it is necessary for python-ldap to use pyasn1, we >> can work on getting it into RHEL. The Fedora python-pyasn1 maintainer >> is one of the guys on the freeipa team which uses python-ldap heavily. > Noted. > > Ciao, Michael.
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