Lib/test/test_nis.py

import nis

verbose = 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
    verbose = 1

maps = nis.maps()
try:
    for nismap in maps:
	if verbose:
	    print nismap
	mapping = nis.cat(nismap)
	for k, v in mapping.items():
	    if verbose:
		print '    ', k, v
	    if not k:
		continue
	    if nis.match(k, nismap) <> v:
		print "NIS match failed for key `%s' in map `%s'" % (k, nismap)
	    else:
		# just test the one key, otherwise this test could take a
		# very long time
		raise 'done'
except 'done':
    pass