PEP for fp.type()

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> I have struggled for some time to get a function similar to the
    Tim> Unix 'file' command.  I found
    Tim> http://www.demonseed.net/~jp/code/magic.py which works pretty well,
    Tim> but I think that a better place for this would be as a file method.

I see nothing wrong with a module like magic.py.  I don't understand why
this is best as a file method.  Your message didn't provide any motivation.

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