Well it doesn't appear that this exists in the standard library or in any
other library, so I ended up writing my own C interface to the underlying
functions.
If you are trying to do the same thing, then you can find the module here:
http://www.planetjoel.com/viewarticle/629/Python+NSS+netgroups+
Python List,
We have a setup where we have implemented NIS Netgroups through LDAP.
I'm looking to query this information through python. We don't have a
nis domain or nis server so I don't think the nis module is
appropriate, what I think I'm looking for is python bindings for nss
(name switching