code: def _get_filesystem_and_paths(path_or_data, storage_options):
      # Returns a filesystem object and the filesystem-normalized
      # paths. If `path_or_data` does not correspond to a path or
      # list of paths (or if the protocol is not supported), the
      # return will be `None` for the fs and `[]` for the paths.
  
      fs = None
      return_paths = path_or_data
      if isinstance(path_or_data, str) or (
          isinstance(path_or_data, list)
          and isinstance(stringify_pathlike(path_or_data[0]), str)
      ):
          # Ensure we are always working with a list
          if isinstance(path_or_data, list):
              path_or_data = [
                  os.path.expanduser(stringify_pathlike(source))
                  for source in path_or_data
              ]
          else:
              path_or_data = [path_or_data]
  
          try:
              fs, _, fs_paths = get_fs_token_paths(
                  path_or_data,
                  mode="rb",
                  storage_options=storage_options,
              )
              return_paths = fs_paths
          except ValueError as e:
              if str(e).startswith("Protocol not known"):
                  return None, []
              else:
                  raise e
  
      return fs, return_paths
  
imports: import datetime
  import os
  import urllib
  import warnings
  from io import BufferedWriter, BytesIO, IOBase, TextIOWrapper
  from threading import Thread
  import fsspec
  import fsspec.implementations.local
  import numpy
  import pandas
  from fsspec.core import get_fs_token_paths
  from pyarrow import PythonFile
  from pyarrow.lib import NativeFile
  from cudf.utils.docutils import docfmt_partial
label_desc: Use image node_id 6 for calling a global function with example usage: _get_filesystem_and_paths(path_or_data, storage_options) and returns: fs,  return_paths, None,  list