On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> Perhaps this entry in the man page is obsolete and should be removed?

Not at all.

For what it's worth, the 2.6.1 documentation states: "Deprecated since version 2.6: The user module has been removed in Python 3.0."  If user.py has indeed been removed, then Mitchell is correct.

http://docs.python.org/library/user.html
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