Check for elevated Privileges

On Linux you can use the os module to first check the os and the get the user id

import os

if os.name == 'posix':
    print(os.getuid())

Complete Function to check if the script is running with elevated Privileges

import os

def is_elevated():
    if os.name == 'posix':
        return os.getuid() == 0
    else:
        return False

print(is_elevated())