def get_ldap_user(member_cn, user, passwrd):
    '''
    Get an LDAP user and return the SAMAccountName
    '''
    #---- Setting up the Connection
    #account used for binding - Avoid putting these in version control
    bindDN = str(user) + "@unt.ad.unt.edu"
    bindPass = passwrd

    #set some tuneables for the LDAP library.
    ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT, ldap.OPT_X_TLS_ALLOW)
    #ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE, CACERTFILE)
    
    conn = ldap.initialize('ldaps://unt.ad.unt.edu')
    conn.protocol_version = 3
    conn.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0)

    #authenticate the connection so that you can make additional queries
    try:
        result = conn.simple_bind_s(bindDN, bindPass) 
    except ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS:
        result = "Invalid credentials for %s" % user
        sys.exit()

    #build query in the form of (uid=user)
    ldap_query = '(|(displayName=' + member_cn + ')(cn='+ member_cn + ')(name=' + member_cn + '))'
    ldap_info = conn.search_s('DC=unt,DC=ad,DC=unt,DC=edu', ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, filterstr=ldap_query)
    sAMAccountName = str(ldap_info[0][1]['sAMAccountName']).replace("[b'", "").replace("']","")
    return sAMAccountName

from typing import Optional

from datetime import datetime

def convert_timestamp_string_to_epoch(timestamp: str) -> Optional[int]:
    epoch_time = None
    time_obj = datetime.strptime(timestamp, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f")
    epoch_time = int((time_obj - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds() * 1000)
    return epoch_time


print(int(convert_timestamp_string_to_epoch("2025-08-01 13:11:47.171")))
#above outputs 1754053907171.0

#how to I remove the .0 ?

print(123)

from time import sleep

def delay(fn, ms, *args):
  sleep(ms / 1000)
  return fn(*args)

delay(lambda x: print(x), 1000, 'later') # prints 'later' after one second

my_list = ["blue", "red", "green"]

#1- Using sort or srted directly or with specifc keys
my_list.sort() #sorts alphabetically or in an ascending order for numeric data 
my_list = sorted(my_list, key=len) #sorts the list based on the length of the strings from shortest to longest. 
# You can use reverse=True to flip the order

#2- Using locale and functools 
import locale
from functools import cmp_to_key
my_list = sorted(my_list, key=cmp_to_key(locale.strcoll))

from datetime import datetime

epoch_time = 1753823646  # Example epoch time (March 15, 2023 00:00:00 UTC)

# Convert epoch time to a UTC datetime object
utc_datetime = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(epoch_time)

print(f"Epoch time: {epoch_time}")
print(f"UTC datetime: {utc_datetime}")

# You can also format the output string
formatted_utc_time = utc_datetime.strftime('%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S UTC')
print(f"Formatted UTC datetime: {formatted_utc_time}")