#!/usr/bin/env python

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"""
Finds out user inf (currently just the logged user name) for Windows and
Posix machines. sets a USER_NAME variable containing the logged user name
defines a UNKNOWN_USER variable to which username falls back.
It also provides the getSystemUserName() function
"""

__all__ = ["getSystemUserName", "USER_NAME", "UNKNOWN_USER"]

__docformat__ = "restructuredtext"

# import os
import getpass

# fallback. The caller of this module can check if username != UNKNOWN_USER
UNKNOWN_USER = "UnknownUser"


def getSystemUserName():
    """Finds out user inf (currently just the logged user name) for Windows and
    Posix machines. sets a USER_NAME variable containing the logged user name
    defines a UNKNOWN_USER variable to which username falls back.

    :return: current user name
    :rtype: str
    """
    try:
        return getpass.getuser()
    except Exception:
        return UNKNOWN_USER


#    username=''
#    if os.name is 'posix':  # this works for linux and macOSX
#        username=os.getenv('USER', UNKNOWN_USER)
#    elif os.name is 'nt':  # win NT, XP... (and Vista?)
#        username=os.getenv('USERNAME', UNKNOWN_USER)
#    if username == '': username=UNKNOWN_USER
#    return username

USER_NAME = getSystemUserName()
