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Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> writes:

> Here's a usecase - I want to know whether I need to use a sudo
> password when the user passes a command on the command line of a
> program:

[…]

> In the first instance, I need the sudo passoword, in the second I don't.

I don't understand what “need a sudo password” means, or what you would
do differently if you detect one case or the other. It's the ‘sudo’
command itself that determines whether you need a password, so what is
your Python code going to do differently?

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