nis — Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)¶
Deprecated since version 3.11, will be removed in version 3.13: The nis module is deprecated
(see PEP 594 for details).
The nis module gives a thin wrapper around the NIS library, useful for
central administration of several hosts.
Because NIS exists only on Unix systems, this module is only available for Unix.
Availability: not Emscripten, not WASI.
This module does not work or is not available on WebAssembly platforms
wasm32-emscripten and wasm32-wasi. See
WebAssembly platforms for more information.
The nis module defines the following functions:
- nis.match(key, mapname, domain=default_domain)¶
- Return the match for key in map mapname, or raise an error ( - nis.error) if there is none. Both should be strings, key is 8-bit clean. Return value is an arbitrary array of bytes (may contain- NULLand other joys).- Note that mapname is first checked if it is an alias to another name. - The domain argument allows overriding the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the default NIS domain. 
- nis.cat(mapname, domain=default_domain)¶
- Return a dictionary mapping key to value such that - match(key, mapname)==value. Note that both keys and values of the dictionary are arbitrary arrays of bytes.- Note that mapname is first checked if it is an alias to another name. - The domain argument allows overriding the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the default NIS domain. 
- nis.maps(domain=default_domain)¶
- Return a list of all valid maps. - The domain argument allows overriding the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the default NIS domain. 
- nis.get_default_domain()¶
- Return the system default NIS domain. 
The nis module defines the following exception:
- exception nis.error¶
- An error raised when a NIS function returns an error code.