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Determine if current user is in Administrators group (Windows/Python)

I want certain functions in my application to only be accessible if the current user is an administrator.

How can I determine if the current user is in the local Administrators group using Python on Windows?

Solution

  • You could try this:

    import ctypes
print ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()