>
>
> 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'
>
>
Pefect, thanks!
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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 fil
