Is there a portable way to get the current username in Python?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8420...

Question links:
[pwd]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pwd.ht...

Accepted answer links:
[getpass]: http://docs.python.org/library/getpass.h...

Answer 2 links:
[pwd]: http://docs.python.org/library/pwd.html

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