Obtaining user information

[Cameron Simpson]

On 10Dec2011 08:43, Hans Mulder <hansmu at xs4all.nl> wrote:
| 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.

Up to a comma is the convention. Eg "Cameron Simpson, x2983".
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