getting user id (from an arbitrary sys user)

[Gerardo Herzig]

hi all. What i need to know is if there is some function like
os.getuid(), but taking an argument (the username, off course), so i can
do getuid('myuser')

Thanks you dudes!

Gerardo

 

[Tina I]

hi all. What i need to know is if there is some function like
os.getuid(), but taking an argument (the username, off course), so i can
do getuid('myuser')

Thanks you dudes!

Gerardo

How about simply:

import commands
userid = commands.getoutput("id -u username")