From c1acdfb60cda3ff3e1ff57e432ad3198b69c0ead Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Langenfeld <langenfv@tf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:43:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added method to check if a user name already exists

---
 gitea/gitea.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gitea/gitea.py b/gitea/gitea.py
index 7cc01cf..08e1569 100644
--- a/gitea/gitea.py
+++ b/gitea/gitea.py
@@ -540,6 +540,13 @@ class Gitea:
                 return user
         return None
 
+    def get_user_by_name(self, username:str) -> User:
+        users = self.get_users()
+        for user in users:
+            if user.username == username:
+                return user
+        return None
+
     def create_user(self, userName: str, email: str, password: str, change_pw=True, sendNotify=True, sourceId=0):
         """ Create User.
         Throws: