Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:

Adding people from the duplicate report #14238.

Georg said:
> there should be a guard here that just doesn't add user site directories if 
> the lookup fails.

I concurred and added:
> we also need to fix sysconfig; I think the right thing to do would be not to 
> have a config var
> named 'userbase' when run from a UID without passwd entry.  This implies that 
> the functions
> listed under http://docs.python.org/library/sysconfig#installation-paths 
> would also need to omit
> *user schemes.

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assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo
nosy: +aikinci, arekm, georg.brandl, loewis, nadeem.vawda
title: "import site failed" when Python can't find home directory 
(sysconfig._getuserbase) -> Python startup should not require passwd entry
versions:  -Python 3.1

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