python: Python script knows user that started this script last time?

Is it possible to store name of the user that started my script last? I want to have somethi开发者_C百科ng like this:

1. user1 launched script
2. user2 launched script

python myscr.py Last started by: user1 ...

Look at getpass.getuser()

>>> import getpass

>>> getpass.getuser()
'me'

EDIT :

Well in general case to log each time the scripts runs and the user i will definitely use logging for that; something like this maybe:

import logging
import getpass

FORMAT = "DATE : %(asctime)-15s USER :  %(message)s FILE : %(filename)s"

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, 
                    format=FORMAT, 
                    filename='users.log', 
                    filemode='a')

logging.debug(getpass.getuser())

Ouput :

DATE : 2011-01-11 15:06:26,465 USER : me    FILE : zzz.py

Yes, you can store it. In a file, or in the windows registry if you are on windows, or in a database, or in a datastore if you are on some server, or you can store it on a server.

Maybe you can give some more information about your actual problem, and also tell us what you have tried, and why that failed?

I think you could use the getpass module. Use getpass.getuser(), and then just store that in a file for the next execution?

 f = open('lastuser')
 f.write(getpass.getuser())
 f.close()

 # Next time
 user = open('lastuser').read()