James Skinner added the comment: Ok, I'm not sure when I got the idea they should return ids instead of the names :) But raising NotImplementedError is certainly an improvement on ImportError.
As to implementing it on Windows, the answer by eryksun on this page works without requiring anything other than ctypes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8086412/howto-determine-file-owner-on-windows-using-python-without-pywin32 That's about as simple as it gets it seems, the process for the group is almost identical, but groups aren't used very much on Windows anyway. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20589> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
