Mime function in Python

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Mark Berry wrote:
> 
> Anyone know of an easy way to determine the mime type of a file?
> 
> For example...  (my dream method)
> 
> type = dream.get_mime('/tmp/myfile.jpg')
> print type
> ['image/jpeg']
> 
> basically something to that effect..  Is there anything in the core
> libs that would do something like that or am I going to have to hack
> something out?

import mimetypes

type = mimetypes.guess_type('/tmp/myfile.jpg')
print type