#2612: GetComponents assumes that $USER is defined

Reporter: Roland Haas Status: new Milestone: Version: development version Type: bug Priority: minor Component: GetComponents

Comment (by Roland Haas):

ugh, I did not know that. Checking… Simfactory has “workarounds”:

```python def GetUsername():

if "USER" not in os.environ: fd = simenv.popen("whoami") username = fd.read().strip() fd.close()

else: username = os.environ["USER"]

return username ```

What’s wrong with `os.getlogin()` which is the first answer that Google finds for “Python get user name”: [https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-get-the-current-username-in-python/%5D(...) and apparently part of Python since forever? I’ll make a pull request for simfactory as well.

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