Hi
I wrote the following code:
f = open('/etc/passwd', 'r')
users = f.read()
userelements = re.findall(r'(\w+):(\w+):(\w+):(\w+):(\w+):(\w+):(\w+)',
users)
print userelements
for user in userelements:
(username, encrypwd, uid, gid, gecos, homedir, usershell) = user #
unpack the tuple into 7 vars
print username
but I get no results so my parsing must be wrong but I am not sure why.
Incidentally while googling I found the module
http://docs.python.org/library/pwd.html which I will eventually use but I am
first curious to fix and understand the problem before I throw away this
code.
Regards
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Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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