I am new to Python, stupid question ahead
I need to compare the entries from a MySQL database with ldap. I created a dictionary to hold the corresponding values, when I try to loop through the dictionary and pass them to ldap3 entries to show the results it takes the variable as literal.
for x in values_dict:
value2=values_dict[x]
try:
ldap_conn.entries[0].value2
except Exception as error:
print(error)
else:
print(value2)
attribute 'value2' not found
If I replace value2 with 'sn' or any of the other attributes I have pulled it works fine. I have also played around with exec() but this returns nothing.
for x in values_dict:
value2=values_dict[x]
test1='ldap_conn.entries[0].{}'.format(value2)
try:
result1=exec(test1)
except Exception as error:
print(error)
else:
print(result1)
None
Any ideas?
EDIT 1 : As requested here are the values for values_dict. As stated previously the loop does parse these correctly, ldap does return the attributes, but when I try to use a variable to lookup the attributes from entries the variable is taken literally.
values_dict = {
"First_Name": "givenname",
"Middle_Name": "middlename",
"Last_Name": "sn",
"Preferred_Name": "extensionattribute2",
"Work_Location": "physicaldeliveryofficename",
"Work_City": "l",
"Work_State": "st",
"Work_Postal": "postalcode",
"Work_Email": "mail"
}
The syntax somevariable.someattr
, which you are using here:
ldap_conn.entries[0].value2
Always means "access an attribute named someattr
of somevariable
". It's always interpreted as a literal string. If you need to dynamically access an attribute, use the getattr
function:
getattr(ldap_conn.entries[0], value2)
You're not currently assigning that that result anywhere, so you probably want something like:
result1 = getattr(ldap_conn.entries[0], value2)
Awesome, and it's a builtin function as well. Thank you for pointing that out!