LDAP_URL = "ldap://ldap-server.my-company.com"
USER = "ldap-user"
PASSWORD = "ldap-password"

conn = ldap.initialize(LDAP_URL)
conn.simple_bind_s(USER, PASSWORD)

# the base_dn where you want to start the search, play with different params here
base_dn = "OU=Users,DC=corp,DC=<your-company>,DC=com"

# search for the user with this attribute. Do a search for some user with this and then
# looking at the output, you can add a more complex search with all the other
# attributes that you see there.
search_dn = "(sAMAccountName=user-id)"
conn.search_s(base_dn, ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, search_dn)