[Pythonmac-SIG] magic file info

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:29 AM, <Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de> wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to retrieve a file's type - not (only) Mac 
> type/creator, but like what the shell command 'file' returns.

/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

-bob