Python: How to get group ids of one username (like id -Gn )

The following works assuming you are only interested in local users only, it will not work for things such as sssd backed by a catalog server (for instance, ldap).

#!/usr/bin/env python

import grp, pwd 

user = "myname"
groups = [g.gr_name for g in grp.getgrall() if user in g.gr_mem]
gid = pwd.getpwnam(user).pw_gid
groups.append(grp.getgrgid(gid).gr_name)
print groups