compiling Python-2.0 on SunOS Unix machine

[Fredrik Lundh]

June Kim wrote:
> when testing the installation with "make test", I got one CRASH:
>
> test_pwd
> test test_pwd crashed -- exceptions.IndexError: list index out of range
>
> What is the problem?

the test script seems to assume that pwd.getpwall should
return at least one entry.  try this:

>>> import pwd
>>> print pwd.getpwall()

if you get back an empty list, your system doesn't expose any
password entries through getpwall (if that's a bug or not is more
than I can tell...)

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