Module python-magic on/for Windows?

[Larry Hale]

I've heard tell of a Python binding for libmagic (file(1) *nixy
command; see http://darwinsys.com/file/).  Generally, has anybody
built this and worked with it under Windows?

The only thing I've been able to find is the python-magic module at
http://hupp.org/adam/hg/python-magic/.

    [1] Is this "THE" python-magic module.  (It seems to be to me, but
obviously I don't know. :)

    [2] Has anybody been able to build THIS version under Windows?

I've gotten as far as completing the "setup.py install" process.
(After many troubles; I'll post the top-to-bottom HowTo-like info if/
when I ever get it to work.  :)

At this point, there -is- a "magic" module that can be imported
(attempted-to, that is), but it fails.

If I go to a cmd window, run the Py interpreter, and do "import magic"
I get:

    [1] an error pop-up (Windows window, which is blocking [as opposed
to "non-blocking", not "obscuring", though it does that, too] the cmd
window):

        (X) This application has failed to start because magic1.dll
was not found.  Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
[OK]

    [2] then, within the interpreter, I get:

        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
          File "build\bdist.win32\egg\magic.py", line 2, in <module>
          File "build\bdist.win32\egg\cmagic.py", line 7, in <module>
          File "build\bdist.win32\egg\_cmagic.py", line 7, in <module>
          File "build\bdist.win32\egg\_cmagic.py", line 6, in
__bootstrap__
        ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not
be found.

I'm using Python 2.5 on Windows XP Pro.  I've got CYGWIN installed
(more info can be provided if necessary) for a copy of file.exe (and
libmagic.a @ 357KB and libmagic.dll.a @ 25KB in C:\cygwin\lib).  I
also have GNUWin32, also for file.exe alternatively (and
libmagic.dll.a @ ~ 8KB in C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\lib).

magic.py in C:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\site-packages\magic-0.1-
py2.5-win32.egg imports cmagic.py (also in this egg), which imports
_cmagic.py, which has the following:

    def __bootstrap__():
       global __bootstrap__, __loader__, __file__
       import sys, pkg_resources, imp
       __file__ =
pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__,'_cmagic.pyd')
       del __bootstrap__, __loader__
       imp.load_dynamic(__name__,__file__)
    __bootstrap__()

Now I *presume* my problem (at this point) is that I need to have
libmagic named as "magic1.dll" -wherever- this module is looking for
it.  I'm just not sure, let alone if this is true, WHERE Python/
modules expect to find such things.

Also, which version(s)/file(s) should be placed where, or...??


Thanks for any/all help/pointers.  I apologize up-front if I left out
any pertinent info; I'm paranoid about putting in too much (and some
that may be worthless) already...  :)



Cheers,
Larry Hale