.. function:: getlogin()
Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the
- process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment variables
- :envvar:`LOGNAME` or :envvar:`USERNAME` to find out who the user is, or
- ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the currently
- effective user id.
+ process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the environment
+ variables :envvar:`LOGNAME` or :envvar:`USERNAME` to find out who the user
+ is, or ``pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]`` to get the login name of the current
+ real user id.
Availability: Unix, Windows.