[Pythonmac-SIG] magic file info

Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de
Tue Feb 22 10:38:14 CET 2005


>/usr/bin/magic determines the file type heuristically by parsing 
>/usr/share/file/magic and then reading a couple bytes out of the given 
>file.
>
>This appears to be a direct Python translation of the file command, 
>with an embedded copy of a magic table:
>http://www.demonseed.net/~jp/code/magic.py

Thank you! I could have written a "magic" parser myself, but it's better if I don't need to. ;-)
I only thought there would be a standard module that I overlooked.

Best regards,
Henning Hraban Ramm
Südkurier Medienhaus / MediaPro
Support/Admin/Development Dept.


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