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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/plat-os2emx/grp.py')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/plat-os2emx/grp.py b/Lib/plat-os2emx/grp.py index d05ad27..fceb4c9 100644 --- a/Lib/plat-os2emx/grp.py +++ b/Lib/plat-os2emx/grp.py @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ # written by Andrew MacIntyre, April 2001. # updated July 2003, adding field accessor support -# note that this implementation checks whether ":" or ";" as used as +# note that this implementation checks whether ":" or ";" as used as # the field separator character. -"""Replacement for grp standard extension module, intended for use on +"""Replacement for grp standard extension module, intended for use on OS/2 and similar systems which don't normally have an /etc/group file. The standard Unix group database is an ASCII text file with 4 fields per @@ -17,16 +17,16 @@ record (line), separated by a colon: - group id (integer) - group members (comma delimited list of userids, with no spaces) -Note that members are only included in the group file for groups that +Note that members are only included in the group file for groups that aren't their primary groups. (see the section 8.2 of the Python Library Reference) -This implementation differs from the standard Unix implementation by -allowing use of the platform's native path separator character - ';' on OS/2, -DOS and MS-Windows - as the field separator in addition to the Unix +This implementation differs from the standard Unix implementation by +allowing use of the platform's native path separator character - ';' on OS/2, +DOS and MS-Windows - as the field separator in addition to the Unix standard ":". -The module looks for the group database at the following locations +The module looks for the group database at the following locations (in order first to last): - ${ETC_GROUP} (or %ETC_GROUP%) - ${ETC}/group (or %ETC%/group) |