[Tutor] "Generic" GetUser

[Colin Campbell]

G'day, eh!

I have an Excel workbook containing many tabs of financial reports. An 
autorun macro looks up the user login in a table and hides the sheets they 
are not allowed to see. There are 2 obvious problems: I can't guarantee 
that the macro is run, and since it makes and API call to Windows, my Mac 
users are doomed.

I have found the win32wnet.WNetGetUser() in ActivePython, so that I don't 
have to trust users to enable macros. This in turn means that my next trick 
is to write a Python front end which handles the security, perhaps even by 
copying the allowed sheets into a temporary workbook or even creating HTML, 
depending on the level of my ambition.

My question is this: is there a more generic method or property that is 
available across all platforms/python implementations, which will return 
the network login of the person running the program?

TIA,

Colin

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