Obtaining user information

[Hans Mulder]

On 10/12/11 02:44:48, Tim Chase wrote:
> Currently I can get the currently-logged-in-userid via getpass.getuser()
> which would yield something like "tchase".
>
> Is there a cross-platform way to get the full username (such as from the
> GECOS field of /etc/passed or via something like NetUserGetInfo on Win32
> so I'd get "Tim Chase" instead?

How about:

     pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_gecos

This will give you the GECOS field of /etc/passed.
I'd assume it contains "Tim Chase" for your account.

Hope this helps,

-- HansM