Seldon <sel...@katamail.it> writes: > Hello, I need to determine programmatically a file type from its > content/extension (much like the "file" UNIX command line utility)
The Unix ‘file(1)’ program does its magic with a library called “magic” and a corresponding database. > I searched for a suitable Python library module, with little luck. Do > you know something useful ? This package <URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic> provides Python bindings to libmagic. -- \ “Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, | `\ Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus.” —Peter | _o__) H. Coffin | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
