isfifo?

2009-02-07 Thread rdmurray
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? --RDM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: isfifo?

2009-02-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:12 +, rdmur...@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? import os import stat st_mode = os.stat(path)[0] isfifo = stat.S_ISFIFO(st_mode

Re: isfifo?

2009-02-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
rdmur...@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) HTH, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: isfifo?

2009-02-07 Thread rdmurray
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: rdmur...@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