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December 12, 2012 16:04
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| import os | |
| def get_user_name(): | |
| if os.name == 'nt': | |
| import ctypes | |
| GetUserNameExW = ctypes.windll.secur32.GetUserNameExW | |
| name_display = 3 | |
| size = ctypes.pointer(ctypes.c_ulong(0)) | |
| GetUserNameExW(name_display, None, size) | |
| name_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(size.contents.value) | |
| GetUserNameExW(name_display, name_buffer, size) | |
| return name_buffer.value | |
| else: | |
| import pwd | |
| # Note that for some reason pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid())[4] did not work for me | |
| display_name = (entry[4] for entry in pwd.getpwall() if entry[2] == os.geteuid()).next() | |
| return display_name |
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