how to find out, whether a path is socket or device

[News123]

On 08/30/2010 02:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:46:16 +0200, News123 wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Under Linux I'd like to find out, whether I got a file, a character
>> device or a socket as a parameter.
> 
> See the stat module.
> 
>
Thks a lot.

I was looking in os.path and forgot about stat (it obviously was too
late :-( )