Hello, I need to determine programmatically a file type from its
content/extension (much like the "file" UNIX command line utility)
I searched for a suitable Python library module, with little luck. Do
you know something useful ?
Are you looking for something comprehensive? Or are you just
looking for particular file-types that your application can
handle? I'd start with the python mimetypes library[1] which
does detection based on extensions (to which you can add your own
mappings). For sniffing by content, there are a wide variety of
document types, I don't know of any pre-existing library. The
first couple bytes can often tell you something, but you'd have
to go digging into the source for "file" to see what it does.
-tkc
[1]
http://docs.python.org/library/mimetypes.html
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