David M Noriega added the comment:
Oops, thats what I get for running with scissors.
Yes, the cert file is in pem format. Its the same file in use on my ldap server
and all my servers and workstations that authenticate against it. I have an
existing python 2.x script using the python-ldap
New submission from David M Noriega:
When trying to use python3-ldap package on Windows 7, found I could not get a
TLS connection to work and traced it to its use of ssl.wrap_socket. Trying out
the following simple socket test fails
import socket
import ssl
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect