How to make Python get the username in windows and then implement it in a script

os.getlogin() did not exist for me. I had success with os.getenv('username') however.

for get current username: add import os in code and then use by :

print(os.getlogin())

OR

print(os.getenv('username'))

and if you get complete path from c drive use this :

print(os.environ['USERPROFILE']) #C:\Users\username

>>> os.path.join(os.path.expandvars("%userprofile%"),"Documents and Settings")
'C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\Documents and Settings'

should suffice ... I think thats what you actually meant anyway..

Install win32com, then:

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
print shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP, None, 0)

If you want the desktop directory, Windows 7 has an environment variable: DESKTOP:

>>> import os
>>> print(os.environ['desktop'])
C:\Users\KingMak\Desktop

import os followed by os.getlogin() works on macOS and Windows with python 3.7

After this you can do something like:

path = ''.join(('C:/Users/', os.getlogin(), '/Desktop/'))

you can try the following as well:

import os
print (os.environ['USERPROFILE'])

The advantage of this is that you directly get an output like:

C:\\Users\\user_name

to get the current user directory you can also use this:

from os.path import expanduser
home = expanduser("~\buildconf")

This works for Python 3.* as well:

os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'] + "/Documents and Settings")