File saving on unix::permissions

[Michael Morrison]

Okay, I've tried just about everything I can think of and have come up with
no solutions.

The problem is, I have this account on a unix shell named "python".  When I
open/create
a file with a python script, it saves under the user "nobody" and has no
write permission,
so when I try to modify/save the same file with the same script under the
same account
later, it just erases all the information in the file or does other wierd
stuff.

Is there some procedure to make your script detect, or write under the
user/account that
is calling it?

Thanks...