How to get user name from 'author' id

Dear all,

When I user xmlrpclib to display a certain message, I can only get a
number for that author, like
'author: 3104'

I'm wondering how can I get the author's user name from this id.
Thank you very much!
Best,

-- 
Wu Yu

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