[Tutor] Re: import pwd?

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:18:18PM -0400, Timothy M. Brauch wrote:
| I have a problem.  The program runs on a windows computer and generates a
| log of anyone who logins.  I have a script that uses getpass, specificall=
y,
| getpass.getuser().  However, since I (re)installed Python 2.2 and VPython=
, I
| receive the following error:
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| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
|     import logger
|   File "c:\python22\programs\logger.pyw", line 35, in ?
|     user =3D getpass.getuser()
|   File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\getpass.py", line 101, in getuser
|     import pwd
| ImportError: No module named pwd
|=20
| So, where is pwd?

in POSIX ...

Microsoft operating systems originally didn't have the concept of
"multi-user".  Thus there was no 'pwd' module and no passwords.  More
recent incarnations have a semblance of multi-user, but are still
almost wholly incompatible with POSIX systems.

$ python2.2
>>> import pwd
>>> pwd.__file__
'/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/pwd.so'
>>>

You don't have 'pwd.so' on windows, and it wouldn't do you any good if
I sent it to you.

-D

PS. Ironically enough, POSIX stands for
    *Portable* Operating System Interface

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