getting mimetype of a file

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 19:58:10 GMT, rumours say that Ryan Paul
<segphault at sbcglobal.net> might have written:

>> is there any way to determine the mimetype of a file using ruby?
[snip]
>=P just realized I sent this to the wrong list. as long as I'm here... how
>is it done in python?

The mimetypes.py module in the standard library is your friend.
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