[Tutor] did I lose the value of record?

[Eric L. Howard]

I have a file that contains two columns delimited by ":".

I can open the file for reading, re.search through the lines for a
particular record and string.split the record into two parts which are
assigned to two different variables.  It's the third assignment that's
causing the script to fall over on it's face [the pwd.getpwnam]

In the interpreter - this works:

>>> 
>>> record  = "elhtest:elh"
>>> userhome = pwd.getpwnam(string.split(record, ":")[1])[5]
>>> print userhome
/home/elh

However - this doesn't appear to work:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import re, string, pwd

listingsfile = open("listings","r")
for record in listingsfile.readlines():
    if re.search("elhtest", record):
        listing = string.split(record, ":")[0]
        owner = string.split(record, ":")[1]
        ownerhome = pwd.getpwnam(string.split(record, ":")[1])[5]
        print "The listing we're found is %s" % listing
        print "The owner for this listing is %s" % owner
        print "The owner's home dir is %s" % ownerhome
listingsfile.close()

I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./sa_setup.py", line 10, in ?
    ownerhome = pwd.getpwnam(string.split(record, ":")[1])[5]
KeyError: 'getpwnam(): name not found'

TIA...

       ~elh

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