Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: >>> File "python2.7/posixpath.py", line 268, in expanduser >>> import pwd >>> ``` >> >> the user suggests that even though claims are made that you can use a >> filesystem, but stuff like pwd is missing. Apparently the user module has >> no meaning, but there is a users module? I guess I'll need to keep >> patching reportlab when GAE users find these glitches. > > According to my Python installation, the pwd module is built-in. But > you could bypass its usage by making sure $HOME is set before calling > expanduser. > > What happens if you fire up Python and just type "import pwd"? Does > that work? If not, does it give any more useful error message?
I found (guess how) https://cloud.google.com/appengine/kb/libraries which states: """ As a result, these are the C modules that are not usable with the Python 2.7 runtime: ctypes sqlite ssl/_ssl fcntl spwd pwd grp syslog select _socket """ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
