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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions changelog/13835.bugfix.rst
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``get_user()`` now correctly returns ``None`` when ``getpass.getuser()`` raises :exc:`OSError`, which Python 3.13 introduced when no username environment variable is set (previously only :exc:`ImportError` and :exc:`KeyError` were caught).
15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions testing/test_tmpdir.py
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assert get_user() is None


def test_get_user_oserror(monkeypatch):
"""Test that get_user() returns None when getpass.getuser() raises OSError.

Python 3.13 changed getpass.getuser() to raise OSError (instead of
ImportError or KeyError) when no username can be determined from the
environment. Regression test for #13835.
"""

def raise_oserror():
raise OSError("No username set in the environment")

monkeypatch.setattr("getpass.getuser", raise_oserror)
assert get_user() is None


class TestNumberedDir:
PREFIX = "fun-"

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