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Unix Specific Services</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="module-nis"> <span id="nis-interface-to-sun-s-nis-yellow-pages"></span><h1>35.14. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-nis" title="nis: Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">nis</span></tt></a> — Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)<a class="headerlink" href="#module-nis" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-nis" title="nis: Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">nis</span></tt></a> module gives a thin wrapper around the NIS library, useful for central administration of several hosts.</p> <p>Because NIS exists only on Unix systems, this module is only available for Unix.</p> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-nis" title="nis: Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">nis</span></tt></a> module defines the following functions:</p> <dl class="function"> <dt id="nis.match"> <tt class="descclassname">nis.</tt><tt class="descname">match</tt><big>(</big><em>key</em>, <em>mapname</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>domain=default_domain</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#nis.match" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the match for <em>key</em> in map <em>mapname</em>, or raise an error (<a class="reference internal" href="#nis.error" title="nis.error"><tt class="xref py py-exc docutils literal"><span class="pre">nis.error</span></tt></a>) if there is none. Both should be strings, <em>key</em> is 8-bit clean. Return value is an arbitrary array of bytes (may contain <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NULL</span></tt> and other joys).</p> <p>Note that <em>mapname</em> is first checked if it is an alias to another name.</p> <p class="versionchanged"> <span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span>The <em>domain</em> argument allows to override the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the default NIS domain.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="nis.cat"> <tt class="descclassname">nis.</tt><tt class="descname">cat</tt><big>(</big><em>mapname</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>domain=default_domain</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#nis.cat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a dictionary mapping <em>key</em> to <em>value</em> such that <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">match(key,</span> <span class="pre">mapname)==value</span></tt>. Note that both keys and values of the dictionary are arbitrary arrays of bytes.</p> <p>Note that <em>mapname</em> is first checked if it is an alias to another name.</p> <p class="versionchanged"> <span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span>The <em>domain</em> argument allows to override the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the default NIS domain.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="nis.maps"> <tt class="descclassname">nis.</tt><tt class="descname">maps</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>domain=default_domain</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#nis.maps" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a list of all valid maps.</p> <p class="versionchanged"> <span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span>The <em>domain</em> argument allows to override the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the default NIS domain.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="function"> <dt id="nis.get_default_domain"> <tt class="descclassname">nis.</tt><tt class="descname">get_default_domain</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#nis.get_default_domain" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return the system default NIS domain.</p> <p class="versionadded"> <span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.5.</span></p> </dd></dl> <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-nis" title="nis: Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library. (Unix)"><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">nis</span></tt></a> module defines the following exception:</p> <dl class="exception"> <dt id="nis.error"> <em class="property">exception </em><tt class="descclassname">nis.</tt><tt class="descname">error</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#nis.error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>An error raised when a NIS function returns an error code.</p> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="resource.html" title="previous chapter">35.13. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">resource</span></tt> — Resource usage information</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="syslog.html" title="next chapter">35.15. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">syslog</span></tt> — Unix syslog library routines</a></p> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li> <li><a href="../_sources/library/nis.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="syslog.html" title="35.15. syslog — Unix syslog library routines" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="resource.html" title="35.13. resource — Resource usage information" >previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <a href="../index.html">Python 2.7.5 documentation</a> » </li> <li><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> <li><a href="unix.html" >35. 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