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I would suggest updating your raspberry Pi distro (Jessie) https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-jessie-is-here/. The latest version does not require SUDO access to control the GPIO ports

Mark

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"Python users used to have to launch Python with sudo in order to allow access to the GPIO lines – Python can now access GPIOs as a standard user."

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