Question

Is it possible to store name of the user that started my script last?
I want to have something like this:

1. user1 launched script
2. user2 launched script

python myscr.py
Last started by: user1
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Answer 1

Look at getpass.getuser()

>>> import getpass

>>> getpass.getuser()
'me'

EDIT :

Well in general case to log each time the scripts runs and the user i will definitely use logging for that; something like this maybe:

import logging
import getpass

FORMAT = "DATE : %(asctime)-15s USER :  %(message)s FILE : %(filename)s"

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, 
                    format=FORMAT, 
                    filename='users.log', 
                    filemode='a')

logging.debug(getpass.getuser())

Ouput :

DATE : 2011-01-11 15:06:26,465 USER : me    FILE : zzz.py