News : How to use ShellExecuteA with Python programming language.

I just discovery this option to use ShellExecuteA in Python.

Let's see some example:

import ctypes
import sys

def is_admin():
    try:
        return ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()
    except:
        return False

if not is_admin():
    ctypes.windll.shell32.ShellExecuteW(None, "runas", sys.executable, __file__, None, 1)

... and another example:

import sys
import ctypes

#fix unicode access
import sys
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    unicode = str

def run_as_admin(argv=None, debug=False):
    shell32 = ctypes.windll.shell32
    if argv is None and shell32.IsUserAnAdmin():
        return True    
    if argv is None:
        argv = sys.argv
    if hasattr(sys, '_MEIPASS'):
        # Support pyinstaller wrapped program.
        arguments = map(unicode, argv[1:])
    else:
        arguments = map(unicode, argv)
    argument_line = u' '.join(arguments)
    executable = unicode(sys.executable)
    if debug:
        print('Command line: ', executable, argument_line)
    ret = shell32.ShellExecuteW(None, u"runas", executable, argument_line, None, 1)
    if int(ret) <= 32:
        return False
    return None  

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ret = run_as_admin()
    if ret is True:
        print ('I have admin privilege.')
        input('Press ENTER to exit.')
    elif ret is None:
        print('I am elevating to admin privilege.')
        input('Press ENTER to exit.')
    else:
        print('Error(ret=%d): cannot elevate privilege.' % (ret, ))