Make it easy to test contexts for superuser privileges

xolox · Apr 13, 2016 · 90bde8f · 90bde8f
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diff --git a/executor/__init__.py b/executor/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Programmer friendly subprocess wrapper.
 #
 # Author: Peter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>
-# Last Change: April 9, 2016
+# Last Change: April 13, 2016
 # URL: https://executor.readthedocs.org
 
 """
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
     unicode = str
 
 # Semi-standard module versioning.
-__version__ = '9.7'
+__version__ = '9.8'
 
 # Initialize a logger.
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

diff --git a/executor/contexts.py b/executor/contexts.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Programmer friendly subprocess wrapper.
 #
 # Author: Peter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>
-# Last Change: April 9, 2016
+# Last Change: April 13, 2016
 # URL: https://executor.readthedocs.org
 
 r"""
@@ -284,6 +284,12 @@ def start_interactive_shell(self, **options):
         cmd.start()
         return cmd
 
+    @property
+    def have_superuser_privileges(self):
+        """:data:`True` if the context has superuser privileges, :data:`False` otherwise."""
+        prototype = self.prepare('true')
+        return prototype.have_superuser_privileges or prototype.sudo
+
     @property
     def cpu_count(self):
         """