bpo-10496: distutils check_environ() handles getpwuid() error (GH-10931)
check_environ() of distutils.utils now catchs KeyError on calling
pwd.getpwuid(): don't create the HOME environment variable in this
case.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 8368262..30a21e4 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -157,8 +157,13 @@
return
if os.name == 'posix' and 'HOME' not in os.environ:
- import pwd
- os.environ['HOME'] = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[5]
+ try:
+ import pwd
+ os.environ['HOME'] = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[5]
+ except (ImportError, KeyError):
+ # bpo-10496: if the current user identifier doesn't exist in the
+ # password database, do nothing
+ pass
if 'PLAT' not in os.environ:
os.environ['PLAT'] = get_platform()