The pythonic way equal to "whoami"

[Cameron Simpson]

On 07Jun2011 20:22, Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar432 at gmail.com> wrote:
| import getpass
| user = getpass.getuser()
| 
| On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM, TheSaint <nobody at nowhere.net.no> wrote:
| > I was trying to find out whose the program launcher, but os.environ['USER']
| > returns the user whom owns the desktop environment, regardless the program
| > is called by root.
| > I'd like to know it, so the program will run with the right privileges.
[...]

From the getuser() doco:

  Get the username from the environment or password database.
  First try various environment variables, then the password database

So, no, wrong suggestion.

Cheers,
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