On 18 mar, 00:54, "Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 12:30 am, Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'd start by taking a look at "file"'s code. :-)
>
> > The thing is being able to identify the signatures of several different
> > types
> > of files. Here's some help for
>
On Mar 18, 12:30 am, Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd start by taking a look at "file"'s code. :-)
>
> The thing is being able to identify the signatures of several different types
> of files. Here's some help for
> you:http://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html
>
> And here's
"Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> How can I determine the type of a file from "magic bytes", similar to
> what the "file" command on unix does? I found
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mimetypes.html
>
> but this only seems to use the filename (extension) for finding the
> type.
