On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Olive <di...@bigfoot.com> wrote: > I want to have a list of all the images in a directory. To do so I want > to have a function that find the mime type of a file. I have found > mimetypes.guess_type but it only works by examining the extension. In > GNU/Linux the "file" utility do much better by actually looking at the > file. Is there an equivalent function in python (as a last resort I can > always use the external file utility).
There's 3rd-party Python bindings for the library that underlies the `file` command: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic And there's an unrelated pure(?) Python standalone module from A-A-P: http://www.a-a-p.org/exec/ref-filetype.html Tip: google "file type detection python" Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
