find login name of user?

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Uwe Hoffmann wrote:
> rattan at cps.cmich.edu schrieb:
>> Is there a function/module to find the login name of the user under
>> UNIX environment?
> 
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/os-procinfo.html
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pwd.html

Speaking of that, is there any reason why there isn't any syntactic 
sugar that gives the illusion of platform neutral fetching of the user name?

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