New submission from Marius Gedminas:
This patch gives grp.getgrnam and grp.getgrgid sligtly more useful docstrings,
and brings them in line with pwd.getpwnam/pwd.getpwuid.
Compare pydoc pwd.getpwnam:
pwd.getpwnam = getpwnam(...)
getpwnam(name) -> (pw_name,pw_passwd,pw_uid,
pw_gid,pw_gecos,pw_dir,pw_shell)
Return the password database entry for the given user name.
See help(pwd) for more on password database entries.
After looking at it I know that I can convert a name to an UID by doing
pwd.getpwnam(name).pw_uid.
Meanwhile pydoc grp.getgrnam:
grp.getgrnam = getgrnam(...)
getgrnam(name) -> tuple
Return the group database entry for the given group name. If
name is not valid, raise KeyError.
is rather unfriendly and makes me reach for Google just so that I could find
out the names of the namedtuple members.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
files: grpmodule-docstrings.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 200896
nosy: docs@python, mgedmin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Improve grp module docstrings
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32295/grpmodule-docstrings.patch
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