file-magic: Python Bindings
This library is a Python ctypes interface to libmagic.
Installing
You can install file-magic either with:
python setup.py install
# or
easy_install .
# or
pip install file-magic
Using
import magic
detected = magic.detect_from_filename('magic.py')
print 'Detected MIME type: {}'.format(detected.mime_type)
print 'Detected encoding: {}'.format(detected.encoding)
print 'Detected file type name: {}'.format(detected.name)
Developing/Contributing
To run the tests:
python setup.py test