Calling all Python experts

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, David Bandel wrote:
>On 12/21/06, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>
>> Apparently "USER" isn't set in the environment being run from.  Use something
>> that is, or pull it from the command line.
>
>finally found it:
>"/var/mail/" + os.environ.get("LOGNAME")
>at least the "+" part they copied correctly from Perl ;-)

Actually perl uses the more cryptic ``.'' operator to concatenate strings
rather than the more logical ``+''.

Bill
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