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Author r.david.murray
Recipients docs@python, giampaolo.rodola, r.david.murray
Date 2010-11-22.20:17:13
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These are wrappers around the posix functions.  As such the unix man pages are a better authority than the Python docs :)  Still, we could certainly improve the docs.

The getlogin error is probably a miscopy from the man page: the man page on my system shows the example as  getpwuid(geteuid()), but it is actually showing a replacement for 'cuserid', not 'getlogin'.
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