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authorJens Holzkämper <jens@holzkaemper.berlin>2022-04-15 03:55:07 (GMT)
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bpo-40376: slightly improved the wording for os.getgrouplist (GH-19702)
The documentation for os.getgrouplist potentially read like it returned all groups a user belongs to but it potentially doesn't. Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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@@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ process and user.
Return list of group ids that *user* belongs to. If *group* is not in the
list, it is included; typically, *group* is specified as the group ID
- field from the password record for *user*.
+ field from the password record for *user*, because that group ID will
+ otherwise be potentially omitted.
.. availability:: Unix.