If anyone else has tried (and failed) get the pywikipedia bot running on a MediaWiki site with LDAP authentication... I just posted a patch to pywikipedia to make it work:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1961161&gro...
DanB
The patch is now incorporated into the pywikipedia distribution.
DanB
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org