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How to fetch a user ID by email address

by T. Kim Nguyen — last modified Jun 05, 2009 04:36 PM

contributed by Andrew Schultz 

studentSupervisor = obj.portal_membership.searchMembers('email', obj.getSupervisorEmail())
supervisorUserName = "%(username)s" % studentSupervisor[0] 

when you use the searchMembers method, it defaults the username and email (as dictionary objects) as a return.

so for your second line, all you have to do is:

 

"%(username or email goes here)s" % yourvariable[at index] 

 


to return the email or username without the dictionary markup.

Alternatively:

(studentSupervisorUserName, studentSupervisorEmail) = obj.portal_membership.searchMembers('email', obj.getSupervisorEmail())


One line only, plus no string interpolation (faster).

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