1:mod:`!spwd` --- The shadow password database 2============================================= 3 4.. module:: spwd 5 :synopsis: Removed in 3.13. 6 :deprecated: 7 8.. deprecated-removed:: 3.11 3.13 9 10This module is no longer part of the Python standard library. 11It was :ref:`removed in Python 3.13 <whatsnew313-pep594>` after 12being deprecated in Python 3.11. The removal was decided in :pep:`594`. 13 14A possible replacement is the third-party library :pypi:`python-pam`. 15This library is not supported or maintained by the Python core team. 16 17The last version of Python that provided the :mod:`!spwd` module was 18`Python 3.12 <https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/spwd.html>`_. 19