PyElevate 0.1.0

Python library for requesting root privileges

Elevate: Request Root Privileges

PyElevate is a small Python library that re-launches the current process with
root/admin. This is essentially a fork of BarneyGale's Elevate with some of the pull requests applied.

Usage

To use, call PyElevate.elevate() early in your script. When run as root, this
function does nothing. When not run as root, this function replaces the current
process (Linux, macOS) or creates a new process, waits, and exits (Windows).

There is also an elevated() function to check if the program is elevated.
This will output a boolean value, with True meaning the program is elevated and False meaning it's not.

from PyElevate import elevate, elevated

if not elevated():
    input("Before: " + str(elevated()) + "\nPress enter to elevate")

elevate()

input("After:" + str(elevated()) + "\nPress enter to elevate")
exit(0)

On Windows, the new process's standard streams are not attached to the parent,
which is an inherent limitation of UAC. By default, the new process runs in a
new console window. To suppress this window, use
elevate(show_console=False).

On Linux and macOS, graphical prompts are tried before sudo by default. To
prevent graphical prompts, use elevate(graphical=False).