Python file mime

Latest version Released: Aug 4, MIME Types. Navigation Project description Release history Download files. Project links Homepage. Maintainers liluo. This library allows for the identification of a file's likely MIME content type. There are many types defined by RFCs and vendors, so the list is long but not complete; don't hesitate to ask to add additional information.

It is useful at times to have information available about MIME types or, inversely, about files. Project details Project links Homepage. And then use "request" instead of urllib — Arjun Thakur. Works for python 2. Gringo Suave Gringo Suave Sure, why not?? There are 3 different libraries that wraps libmagic. It seems to me another take by the original author of libmagic.

Too bad is not available directly on pypi. I added a repo for convenience: github. This is unnecessary, since the file command is basically just a wrapper around libmagic. You may as well just use the python binding python-magic , as in Simon's answer. That depends on the operating system. On Mac OS X, for example, you have "file" but not libmagic in the normal environment.

Pedro Lobito Pedro Lobito 82k 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Nowdays you can just do subprocess. There is really no reason to resort to using an external tool when python-magic does the equivalent thing, all wrapped and cozy. You should install python-magic, using pip3 install python-magic For Mac OS X, you should also install libmagic using brew install libmagic Code snippet import urllib import magic from urllib.

Will it be load whole file? No, it's a stream, so normally just few bytes. I've edited by response. I try mimetypes library first. If it's not working, I use python-magic libary instead. Jak Liao Jak Liao 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Helder Helder 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. I don't think that's true.

The MIME type is about how to tell others about a data format, not about how to find out the data format yourself. If you use a tool that guesses the format only based on the extension and prints out MIME types then you can't use that tool if there are no file extensions.

But other ways to guess the format are possible as well, e. Example checking if files is mp3 from mutagen. Artem Bernatskyi Artem Bernatskyi 2, 2 2 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. For byte Array type data you can use magic. Ajay Ajay 9 9 bronze badges.

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By default, it provides access to the same database as the rest of this module. The initial database is a copy of that provided by the module, and may be extended by loading additional mime. The mapping dictionaries may also be cleared before loading additional data if the default data is not desired. Dictionary mapping filename extensions to encoding types.

Tuple containing two dictionaries, mapping filename extensions to MIME types: the first dictionary is for the non-standards types and the second one is for the standard types. Tuple containing two dictionaries, mapping MIME types to a list of filename extensions: the first dictionary is for the non-standards types and the second one is for the standard types. Load MIME information from a file named filename. This uses readfp to parse the file. If strict is True , information will be added to list of standard types, else to the list of non-standard types.

Load MIME type information from an open file fp. The file must have the format of the standard mime.

If strict is True , information will be added to the list of standard types, else to the list of non-standard types. Availability : Windows. Navigation index modules next previous Python ». New in version 3. See History and License for more information.

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