Adventures in software
January 14, 2010
Active Directory exposes an LDAP interface. This makes it possible to talk to the service using an LDAP client.
Here's an example of talking to Active Directory from python code:
>>> import ldap >>> con = ldap.initialize('ldap://server:port') >>> dn = 'domain\username' >>> password = …
January 14, 2010
The xlrd library, available at http://www.python-excel.org/ allows you to read xls files from python code.
Download and install the library, knock up a suitable test file in Excel, then try the following code in a python shell:
>>> from mmap import mmap,ACCESS_READ >>> from xlrd import open_workbook >>> …
I'm Tim Sawyer. I'm a software architect. I usually end up writing software in my spare time too, though I can also be found playing percussion and taking photos.
