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Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote:
>>>   File "python2.7/posixpath.py", line 268, in expanduser
>>>     import pwd
>>> ```
>>
>> the user suggests that even though claims are made that you can use a
>> filesystem, but stuff like pwd is missing. Apparently the user module has
>> no meaning, but there is a users module? I guess I'll need to keep
>> patching reportlab when GAE users find these glitches.
> 
> According to my Python installation, the pwd module is built-in. But
> you could bypass its usage by making sure $HOME is set before calling
> expanduser.
> 
> What happens if you fire up Python and just type "import pwd"? Does
> that work? If not, does it give any more useful error message?

I found (guess how)

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/kb/libraries

which states:

"""
As a result, these are the C modules that are not usable with the Python 2.7 
runtime:

ctypes
sqlite
ssl/_ssl
fcntl
spwd
pwd
grp
syslog
select
_socket
"""