Calling all Python experts

[David Bandel]

Folks,

OK, well, someone took a perfectly good idea originally coded in Perl
and decided he liked Python better :-(.

Well, I need to try to figure out how Python handles grabbing
arguments to programs.  Specifically, sendmail is calling procmail,
which runs a filter in Python (if only this were Perl I could fix it,
but I don't feel like learning enough Python to translate the entire
program to Perl).

The install suggests something like:
"/var/mail/%s" % os.environ.get("USER")

Geez, what atrocious syntax.  Might as well be Klingon.

unfortunately, the above returns a filter error: no such file /var/mail/None.
duh. That None is supposed to be the user's name that sendmail passed
to procmail.

Anyone have any ideas how to code this correctly?  Note that, since
most users have /bin/false as their shell, I had to declare:
SHELL=/bin/sh
in the user's .procmailrc

TIA,

David A. Bandel
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