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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:28:20 +1100
Subject: Re: Why does os.stat() tell me that my file-group has no members?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:23 PM,  <saqib.ali.75@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks!! This was very helpful. It worked perfectly.
> I had no clue about the intricacies of how python represents the group data from the underlying OS.
>
> This page doesn't go into to detailed explanation like you did: http://docs.python.org/2/library/grp.html

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