[Tutor] iPython check if user running script is root user (Linux)

[Alan Gauld]

On 31/05/12 23:21, Dave wrote:
> Hi. What is the right way to have an iPython script check to see if the
> user is currently root?

I don;t know anything much about ipython but so far as IO know its just 
a shell on standard python so:

os.getuid()

should work.
In general if you are trying to replace bash with python look at the
os, shutil, glob, os.path modules as a first port of call.

hth

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