[issue4261] The pwd module doesn't distinguish between errors and no user

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

I read that first paragraph as the controlling one, and that says that errno will be zero if the problem was that the entry could not be found, and non-zero if some other error occurred.

Raising an error would be a backward incompatible change, so it could only be done in 3.5.

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versions:  -Python 2.7

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