How to determine what user and group a Python script is running as?

Question

I have a CGI script that is getting an \"IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied\" error in the stack trace in the web server\'s error log.

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Answer 1

os.getgid() and os.getuid() can be useful. For other environment variables, look into os.getenv. For example, os.getenv('USER') on my Mac OS X returns the username. os.getenv('USERNAME') would return the username on Windows machines.