bpo-40376: slightly improved the wording for os.getgrouplist (GH-19702) (GH-91557)

miss-islington · woodfighter · web-flow · commit 2c034700f883 · 2022-04-15T15:08:11.000+02:00
The documentation for os.getgrouplist potentially read like it returned all groups a user belongs to but it potentially doesn't. Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit bd26ef5) Co-authored-by: Jens Holzkämper <jens@holzkaemper.berlin>
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ process and user.
 
    Return list of group ids that *user* belongs to. If *group* is not in the
    list, it is included; typically, *group* is specified as the group ID
-   field from the password record for *user*.
+   field from the password record for *user*, because that group ID will
+   otherwise be potentially omitted.
 
    .. availability:: Unix.
 
