Programatically check whether a drive letter is a shared/network drive

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Hi SO community!

I searched a while but found nothing that helped me. Is there a way to check whether a drive letter stands for a shared drive/network drive or a local disc in python? I guess there is some windows api function that gives me that info, but I cant find it. Perhaps there is even a method already integrated in python?

What I am looking for is something with this or similar behaviour:

someMagicMethod("C:\")  #outputs True 'is a local drive'
someMagicMethod("Z:\")  #outputs False 'is a shared drive'

That would help me as well:

someMagicMethod2()  #outputs list of shared drive letters

Thanks a lot in advance!

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