[Pythonmac-SIG] Discovering file type

[Ray Slakinski]

I found a type script that mimics the file command in unix.  It uses 
'magic' to figure out the type -- where magic is a code in most files 
that identify what it is.  So I would google for those pieces of info 
and your bound to come up with it.  Mine is heavily hacked up for my 
purposes so mine wont be al that useful to you.

Ray Slakinski

On 10-Feb-05, at 6:19 AM, Enrico Franchi wrote:

> I need to write a function that gets a filepath and gives back what 
> kind of file is that in a consistent way.
>
> I thought i could use my beloved old TYPE and CREATOR, then I realized 
> that in MacOS X not every file has got them.
> So i can check both the extension and the HFSFileType.
>
> Still i need a consistent way to express the file type. I need 
> something that given an HFSFileType returns the 'most used' extension, 
> or something that from an extension determines a file type.
> Is there anything like that?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -enrico
>
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