[Python] sudo privileges within python virtualenv

Environment

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  Windows Subsystem for Linux with Serial Communication to a GPS.
  
  
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  Adafruit GPS connected to a Arduino Nano which is connected to COM10. In Windows Subsystem for Linux this is equivalent to /dev/ttyS10
  
  
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  Requirements: pyserial
  

I have written a simple script to read information from the GPS module:

import serial

def select_sentence():
""" This function sends serial data to the GPS module to display only GPGGA and GPRMC"""

def read_gps():
ser = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyS10", 9600)
while True:
print(ser.readline().decode('utf-8'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
select_sentence()
read_gps()


In the virtualenv I chose Python3 and when I executed it I got Permission Error for the serial port /ttyS10 so I chose to sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyS10 to use the script in the virtualenv.

However is there an alternative to the above mentioned chmod /dev/serial in order to avoid the PermissionErrors?

I am aware that even in the virtualenv when one uses sudo the packages installed in the virtualenv are no considered and instead sudo looks for your global pip packages.

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