[Python-Dev] 3.5 release schedule PEP

[Paul Moore]

On 25 September 2014 17:05, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
> So yes, pip can certainly do this, and if it's already running elevated then it shouldn't reprompt, but it's not entirely trivial to get this right ("are you denied write access to that directory because you're not admin or because it's on read-only media?") and it's considerably easier to try it, fail on access issues, but provide a flag for the user to force elevation. "pip --sudo install ..." would be fine by me :)

I thought one issue with running an elevated command line subprocess
from a non-elevated one, was that the elevated one didn't have access
to the non-elevated console, so it popped up its own independent
console window, which disappeared immediately the process completed
(hence losing any error messages). I definitely recall easy_install
did that at one stage, and it was a real pain. Or is that something
the parent process can affect, and the cmd/easy_install pair just
didn't do so?

Paul