[Tutor] usernames and uid in linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, Pat Martin wrote:
>
>   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).

You're close:

import pwd

pw = pwd.getpwnam('username')

Bill
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