[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib nntplib.py,1.30,1.31 (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:33:29 +0100

Just van Rossum wrote:

esr@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

> + # If no login/password was specified, try to get them from ~/.netrc > + # Presume that if .netc has an entry, NNRP authentication is required. > + if not user: > + import netrc > + credentials = netrc.netrc() > + auth = credentials.authenticators(host) > + if auth: > + user = auth[0] > + password = auth[2] > + # Perform NNRP authentication if needed. Erm, doesn't this make anonymous nntp access fail if there's no $HOME or no ..netrc file in $HOME?

Ok, since I didn't get a reply (I posted the above to python-checkins), I tried it, and yes it does break:

[python:~] just% python2.3 Python 2.3a0 (#2, Nov 17 2002, 18:16:38) [GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from nntplib import NNTP s = NNTP('news') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/nntplib.py", line 140, in init credentials = netrc.netrc() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/netrc.py", line 29, in init fp = open(file) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/just/.netrc'

Just