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authorAndrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>2003-07-10 12:55:30 (GMT)
committerAndrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>2003-07-10 12:55:30 (GMT)
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update OS/2 EMX port notes
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@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ distribution by changing to the Python 2.3 home directory and executing the
REGRTEST.CMD batch file. The following tests are known to fail at this
time:
- test_mhlib (I don't know of any port of MH to OS/2);
-- test_pwd (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 10, probably a bug in my code);
+- test_pwd (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 10);
- test_grp (as per test_pwd);
- test_strftime (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 15);
- test_strptime (see "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" item 22);
@@ -494,6 +494,11 @@ grp.py: $ETC_GROUP (%ETC_GROUP%)
$ETC/group (%ETC%/group)
$PYTHONHOME/Etc/group (%PYTHONHOME%/Etc/group)
+The ETC_PASSWD and ETC_GROUP environment variables are intended to allow
+support for multiple passwd/grp files, where other applications may not
+support as wide a variety of input variations (drive remappings,
+separators etc).
+
Both modules support using either the ":" character (Unix standard) or
";" (OS/2, DOS, Windows standard) field separator character, and pwd.py
implements the following drive letter conversions for the home_directory and
@@ -501,9 +506,9 @@ shell fields (for the ":" separator only):
$x -> x:
x; -> x:
-Example versions of passwd and group are in the Etc subdirectory. Note
-that as of this release, this code fails the regression test. I'm looking
-into why, and hope to have this fixed.
+Example versions of passwd and group are in the Etc subdirectory. The
+regression tests (test_pwd and test_grp) will fail if valid password and
+group files cannot be found, but should pass otherwise.
Be aware that Python's pwd & group modules are for reading password and
group information only.