isfifo?

[rdmurray at bitdance.com]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> rdmurray at bitdance.com wrote:
> > I've googled and looked through os.path, but I don't see a method for
> > determining if a path points to a FIFO.  Anyone know of a simple way to
> > do so?
> 
> def isfifo(fn):
>   return stat.S_ISFIFO(os.stat(fn).st_mode)

Thanks.  I should have thought of looking in os.stat.  Odd that S_ISFIFO
didn't come up in my google search.

--RDM