Is there a standard module library function to access /etc/passwd or /etc/group

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Andrew Dalke:
  [...]
> When you're stuck because you don't know which module something
> might be in (eg, I was just looking for XMLRPC server code in
> xmlrpclib - wrong place!), try the full index at
>   http://python.org/doc/current/lib/genindex.html

And don't forget the full-text searching capabilities at pydoc.org.

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