Becoming root within a Python script

[Robert Vollmert]

On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:14:15AM +0000, Will Ware wrote:

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> if os.popen('whoami').readline()[:-1] == 'root':
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> Dumb question for those wiser than myself:
> The os.popen().readline()[:-1] construction is pretty ugly.
> Is there a better way to do it?

How about 'if os.getuid() == 0:' ?

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Robert Vollmert                                      rvollmert at gmx.net