[Tutor] Determine Filetype

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, admin at gg-lab.net <admin at gg-lab.net> wrote:
> Hi Emile,
>
> that functions requires a filename/path.

Did you even look at the link? There is a from_buffer() method also.

Kent

> 2009/9/18 Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com>:

>> I'd take a look at python-magic at
>> http://hupp.org/adam/hg/python-magic/file/d3cd83e5a773 where the example
>> shows that you can do:
>>
>> # For MIME types
>>>>> mime = magic.Magic(mime=True)
>>>>> mime.from_file("testdata/test.pdf")
>> 'application/pdf'