> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Works for me. Found various old Python bugs related to this:

http://bugs.python.org/issue584566
http://bugs.python.org/issue1750013

> System Description:   Ubuntu 13.04

Thanks. Please close it. I will use pwd which is the recommended module:

>>> pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
'rajanikanth'

Thanks,
Raj

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Rajanikanth