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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2003-10-23 23:54:57 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2003-10-23 23:54:57 (GMT)
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treea616fb75c8790623bf3397dd58de6ba811261515
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- The pwd module incorrectly advertised its struct type as
struct_pwent; this has been renamed to struct_passwd. (The old name is still supported for backwards compatibility.)
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
-rw-r--r--Modules/pwdmodule.c2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 203972d..a53fdaf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
-----------------
+- The pwd module incorrectly advertised its struct type as
+ struct_pwent; this has been renamed to struct_passwd. (The old name
+ is still supported for backwards compatibility.)
+
- The xml.parsers.expat module now provides Expat 1.95.7.
- socket.IPPROTO_IPV6 was added.
diff --git a/Modules/pwdmodule.c b/Modules/pwdmodule.c
index 7e3c3ae..6bbea33 100644
--- a/Modules/pwdmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/pwdmodule.c
@@ -184,5 +184,7 @@ initpwd(void)
PyStructSequence_InitType(&StructPwdType, &struct_pwd_type_desc);
Py_INCREF((PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
+ PyModule_AddObject(m, "struct_passwd", (PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
+ /* And for b/w compatibility (this was defined by mistake): */
PyModule_AddObject(m, "struct_pwent", (PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
}