Windows : ImportError: No module named pwd on util.py

[firm1]

When i try to build gitpython on Windows Server i have this error message.

File "C:\project\.tox\back\lib\site-packages\git\objects\commit.py", line 318, in create_from_tree
    committer = committer or Actor.committer(cr)
  File "C:\project\.tox\back\lib\site-packages\git\util.py", line 416, in committer
    return cls._main_actor(cls.env_committer_name, cls.env_committer_email, config_reader)
  File "C:\project\.tox\back\lib\site-packages\git\util.py", line 386, in _main_actor
    default_email = get_user_id()
  File "C:\project\.tox\back\lib\site-packages\git\util.py", line 152, in get_user_id
    return "%s@%s" % (getpass.getuser(), platform.node())
  File "c:\python27\Lib\getpass.py", line 157, in getuser
    import pwd
ImportError: No module named pwd

After search, the only solution is try this hack on utiy.py file.

Then use this :

try:
    import pwd
except ImportError:
    import winpwd as pwd
import os

def get_user_id():
    """:return: string identifying the currently active system user as name@node"""
    return "%s@%s" % (pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_name, platform.node())

instead of

import getpass

def get_user_id():
    """:return: string identifying the currently active system user as name@node"""
    return "%s@%s" % (getpass.getuser(), platform.node())

What do you think about that ?

[Byron]

getpass.getuser is supposed to be a portable way of obtaining a user id, which is also used in the latest version of GitPython.

GitPython 0.3.2.1 is the first version with the fix - could it be that you are using a version older than that ?

[firm1]

I don't know why, but this function is not really portable (Windows Server 2012). I use the latest release (1.0.1) of gitpython.

[firm1]

On this project they are same issue with pwd.

[Byron]

As this seems to be an issue with the python distribution, there seems to be nothing GitPython can do. Please let me know if I have overlooked anything though,

[cblegare]

If anyone is struggling with this, here is a workaround:

Since pwd is only availble on Unix, Python tries to guess the current user's username from the following environment variables:

• LOGNAME
• USER
• LNAME
• USERNAME

If for some reason none of these are set on your windows machine (it was my case when running tests on a build machine), find some way to define one of these variables in order to prevent python to try to import pwd.

[schlamar]

This is a tox issue: tox-dev/tox#1455

A workaround would be to set in tox.ini

[testenv]
passenv = USERNAME

[nmz787]

tox.ini addition was the fix. Just in case search engine indexing might benefit from more keywords... I got here by searching:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pwd' "getpass.py"

and here was my traceback:

C:\Python36\lib\getpass.py:168: in getuser
    import pwd
E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pwd'

[eric-wieser]

#1314 should fix this.