New submission from Carlo: The documentation for os.getlogin() says:
... ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently effective user id Either, os.getuid() should be changed to os.geteuid(), or the wording should be changed. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 226139 nosy: Carlo, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.getlogin() documentation has misleading side note versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22307> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com