[Tutor] usernames and uid in linux

[Pat Martin]

Hello all,

I seem to be having a problem finding the right tool in python. Given a
username I want to find the uid for it. I can do the reverse very easily
with:

pwd.getpwuid(2012)

This returns a tuple of data from the passwd file. But I want to do
something like:

command(username)

And get something that returns the uid (the number).

Thanks
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Pat Martin
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