Re: find login name of user?

Uwe Hoffmann wrote:
rattan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
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

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?

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