[Python-Dev] 3.5 release schedule PEP

[Mike Miller]

On 09/25/2014 08:43 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>
> One thing about *nix is even though you can’t write to your normal Python
> install location without root, invoking pip with permissions (assuming you have
> them) is as easy as prefacing it with ``sudo`` in most cases. Does Windows have
> an equivalent or do you need to launch a whole new shell?

There is the "runas" command, though it is a tad harder to use.  There is a 
third-party windows sudo command also that works as you'd expect.

-Mike