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December 22nd, 2015, 07:09 PM

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Chapter 2 page 50 - getpwnam function

Thanks to Alex Kleider for pointing out that the os.getpwnam() mentioned
in para 2 of How it Works should in fact be pwd.getpwname()

Apologies. Hopefully that one didn't trip up too many readers.

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Oops again. That should of course be:

pwd.getpwnam() - with no 'e' at the end. Sorry.

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