Mark Gibson wrote:
> Is there an equivalent to the unix 'file' command?
>
> [mark tmp]$ file min.txt
> min.txt: ASCII text
> [mark tmp]$ file trunk
> trunk: directory
> [mark tmp]$ file compliance.tgz
> compliance.tgz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
>
> What I really want to do is determine if a file is 1) a directory, 2) a
> text file 3) a binary file.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Mark
import os
def test_file(filename, maxread=1024):
if os.path.isdir(filename):
return 'directory'
afile = open(filename) # open as text
for achar in afile.read(maxread):
if ord(achar) > 127:
return 'binary'
return 'text'
James
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UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095
http://www.jamesstroud.com/
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