Effect of sudo on the performance of `gsettings set` command

I wrote the following script to enable certain GNOME shell extensions. I noticed that this script will return different behaviours when it is executed as "sudo" as compared to "ordinary user".

As Ordinary User: From terminal, after issuing python3.6 scriptname.py, this script will make the necessary settings changes, the effects will be visible, and the changes will be registered in the "dconf Editor", i.e. its /org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions tab will contain the values of GS_ENABLED_EXTENSIONS. When I manually re-issued the command Alt+F2+r+Return, the enabled extensions remains in effect.

As sudo: First, I used the dconf Editor to reset /org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions to it's original value. Next, from the terminal, after issuing sudo python3.6 scriptname.py, the script's setting will take effect and the setting changes will be visible. However, when I re-opened the dconf Editor, i.e. /org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions, I noticed the values of GS_ENABLED_EXTENSIONS will not appear there. In fact, it's original value still appears. Now, when I manually re-issued the command Alt+F2+r+Return, the enabled extensions settings by the script will be visually lost, and visually the GNOME shell will show the extensions in the dconf Editor, i.e. it's original values.

Question: Why does the gsettings set command behave differently when it is executed as sudo as compared to an "ordinary user"? Is there a way for sudo to return the same behavior as an ordinary user?

#!/usr/bin/python3.6
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import ast
import time
from subprocess import run, PIPE


INSTALLED_GSEXTENSIONS = ['user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com',
                          'workspace-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com']


def set_gs_enabled_extensions():
    global GS_ENABLED_EXTENSIONS, CMD

    print( '\nEnabling GNOME shell extensions...' )
    #Commands
    get_enabled_extensions = [ 'gsettings', 'get', 'org.gnome.shell', 'enabled-extensions' ]
    set_enabled_extensions = [ 'gsettings', 'set', 'org.gnome.shell', 'enabled-extensions' ]

    #Get existing GS enabled extensions (if any).
    enabled_extensions = run( get_enabled_extensions, stdout=PIPE ).stdout.decode().rstrip()
    GS_ENABLED_EXTENSIONS = set( ast.literal_eval( enabled_extensions ) )

    #Enable existing and installed GS extensions.
    GS_ENABLED_EXTENSIONS.update( INSTALLED_GSEXTENSIONS )
    begin=' '.join( set_enabled_extensions )
    CMD=f'{begin} "{[*GS_ENABLED_EXTENSIONS,]}"'
    print( '\nCMD=', CMD )
    run( CMD , shell=True, stdout=sys.stdout )
    print( 'Enabling GNOME shell extensions... Done' )


def restart_gnome_shell():
    print( '\nRestarting GNOME shell ...' )
    cmd = 'xdotool key "Alt+F2+r" && sleep 0.5 && xdotool key "Return"'
    run( cmd, shell=True, stdout=sys.stdout )
    print( '\Restarting GNOME shell ... Done.' )


def main():
    set_gs_enabled_extensions()
    restart_gnome_shell()


if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()