[ python-Bugs-1404213 ] os.getlogin() goes **poof**

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Bugs item #1404213, was opened at 2006-01-12 20:59
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jim Wilson (wilson1442)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.getlogin() goes **poof**

Initial Comment:
"python -c "import os; getlogin()" rears its ugly head
again.  It complains it can't open "<string>" (Python
2.4.1, FC4).

Strace confirms it:

open("<string>", ...)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or ...
open("<string>", ...)  = -1 ENOENT ...
open("/usr/lib/python24.zip/<string>", ...) = -1 ...
open("/usr/lib/python2.4/<string>", ...) = -1 ...
open("/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/<string>", ... 
open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/<string>", ...
open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/<string>", ...
open("/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/<string>", ... 
[<two more long obscure directories>/<string> snipped.]

I don't know what's in that "<string>" file, but it
surely must be important.


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>Comment By: Jim Wilson (wilson1442)
Date: 2006-01-12 21:17

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Er...  Of course, I intended:

python -c "import os; os.getlogin()"

diagnostic output was from:

strace -e trace=open python -c "import os; os.getlogin()"

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