getgrouplist() ?

Mark McEahern marklists at mceahern.com
Sat Jun 15 10:00:03 EDT 2002


> I need a way to get a back a list of supplemental group ids for a
> specified uid.  Something like getgrouplist() in my C standard lib.  I
> don't see a convenient method for this, have I missed it?
> 
> The os module contains getgroups(), but that doesn't allow me to
> specify a uid; it uses only the uid of the current process.

For what it's worth, the grp module is getting some improvements for 2.3:

  http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node8.html

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