find login name of user?

[rattan]

Is there a function/module to find the login name of the user under
UNIX environment?

-ishwar

 

[karel]

Is there a function/module to find the login name of the user under
UNIX environment?

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[rattan]

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who am i
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I was talking about under python environment.

-ishwar

 

[karel]

I was talking about under python environment.

Ah! Thanks for enlightening me.
Apologies for misunderstanding.

 

[Uwe Hoffmann]

Is there a function/module to find the login name of the user under
UNIX environment?

http://docs.python.org/lib/os-procinfo.html

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pwd.html

 

[Martin P. Hellwig]

http://docs.python.org/lib/os-procinfo.html

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pwd.html

Speaking of that, is there any reason why there isn't any syntactic
sugar that gives the illusion of platform neutral fetching of the user name?

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <[email protected]>,

Is there a function/module to find the login name of the user under
UNIX environment?

Note that there isn't really an important concept of "login name" under *NIX
systems. There is the current process UID and GID, effective UID and GID
and so on, but these are just numbers, not names.

The OS doesn't remember anywhere the actual name that you used to login
with; this is conventionally saved in the USER environment variable, but
this is purely for informational purposes.

 

[Brian Beck]

Speaking of that, is there any reason why there isn't any syntactic
sugar that gives the illusion of platform neutral fetching of the user
name?

getpass.getuser() might come the closest:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-getpass.html