finding out console user (Win95)

[Dale Nagata]

Radovan Garabik wrote:
> 
> I am porting my script from unix to windows, and I need to find
> console user under win95 (under WinNT I can use os.environ['USERNAME'],
> which is not exactly console user, but good enough for me).
> Something like cuserid() or getlogin() as implemented in
> Cygwin would be ideal....
> Is there a simple way to find it?
> 

The following should work on both Win95 and NT:

	import win32api
	print win32api.GetUserName()

This will get the correct account name even if the USERNAME
environment variable is set to something different.


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