guessing file type

[Ben Finney]

Seldon <seldon at katamail.it> writes:

> Hello,  I need to determine programmatically a file type from its
> content/extension (much like the "file" UNIX command line utility)

The Unix ‘file(1)’ program does its magic with a library called “magic”
and a corresponding database.

> I searched for a suitable Python library module, with little luck. Do
> you know something useful ?

This package <URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic> provides
Python bindings to libmagic.

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Ben Finney