Cross Platform Active Directory Module

Hi.

I'm new to python. First off I'd like some advice on where to find modules for python that I can trust don't do anything malicious.

There seems to be a lot of modules availible for python but how do I know that they only do what they advertise they do without actually going through the code. Being a beginner in python reviewing the code doesn't seem viable. Seems to me like an ideal area to place malicious code.

Secondly and the main reason I'm hear. I'm looking for a module I can use to interact with active directory in both a windows and linux enviroment. Currently I'm using win32com in windows but that doesn't work in linux.

I have written a script in vb to read a text file of users and create the user in AD. It does various error checks to see if they exist etc and enables them and moves them to the correct OU if they do.

I now want to create that script in python so it can be run in linux by the sys admins wh use linux and so I can integrate with google apps api also, which I believe you use python for.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

I trust against malevolence in the modules installed with python. The os, subprocess, and os.path modules are relevant to you and designed for operating system independence.

Thank you for your response.

I understand trusting modules installed with python but I'm wondering about third party modules. Just trusting them doesn't seem like a good idea.

I know that the os module for operating system independence but what I'm looking for is a module to interact with active directory.