Search object by attribute with less or greater than

[schneidr]

Is there any way to search for objects by attributes and using <= or >= as search operators?

For example, I want to search for all user accounts that have been created within the last seven days. With a regular LDAP query I can do this:

    start_time = datetime.today()  - timedelta(days = 7)
    result = self.search(
        "(&(objectClass=user)(whenCreated>={}))".format(start_time.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S.0Z")),
        ["cn", "displayName", "mail", "o", "whenCreated"]
    )

With this library I only see the option to search with the = operator. Is there any way to to this with ms_active_directory?

[ndelo]

Agreed. It would be nice in general to be able to pass an ldap filter string in a search. I was also looking to filter by the whenCreated attribute in the same way as @schneidr

If this can already be done, it would be nice to see this reflected in the documentation.