[Twisted-Python] Ldaptor attributes in Python 3

[Peter Westlake]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, at 22:09, Adi Roiban wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 11:15, Peter Westlake <peter.westlake at pobox.com> wrote:
>> I'm using Ldaptor for LDAP access because it fits in with Twisted, and the results are a bit mystifying.
>> ...
> 
> Can you send a full example of how you would like the  API to behave ? Or send a PR ? :)
> 
> I am doing a client-side search like this and I was happy with API
> 
> o = LDAPEntry(client, base_dn)
> results = yield o.search(
>     attributes=[b'objectclass'],
>     scope=LDAP_SCOPE_wholeSubtree,
>     filterText='(cn=test)',
>     )
> for result in results:
>     print (result['objectclass'])

Thanks, Adi! 

My code looks like this:

> o = LDAPEntry(client, base_dn)
> results = yield o.search(filterText='(uid=peterw)')
> for result in results:
>     print (result['cn'])

I would like this to print:

   Peter Westlake

or

  b'Peter Westlake'

What it actually prints is:

  JournaledLDAPAttributeSet(b'cn', [b'Peter Westlake])

Having searched the WWW for examples, it looks as though other people have seen it behaving in exactly the way I want, but it's not doing that for me, with Python 3.6.8 on CentOS 7.

Peter.
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