[issue34604] Possible mojibake in pwd.getpwnam and grp.getgrnam

[William Grzybowski]

New submission from William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>:

Issue was spotted by @vstinner while reviewing https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/7081

pwd.getpwnam and grp.getgrnam are susceptible to mojibake as they are using encoded bytes instead of unicode in the error message.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 324738
nosy: wg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Possible mojibake in pwd.getpwnam and grp.getgrnam
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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