mark wrote: > Is there any way to guess the file type using python? > thanks > mark > > For example in unix: > > file code.py > code.py: a python script text executable > > file Eccentric.gif > Eccentric.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 237 x 277
"file" tool uses libmagic.so library which in turn uses /etc/magic file with file format descriptions. To get some reliable results you'll have to call libmagic. The "file-4.xx.tar.gz" source tarball has python bindings included and there's a python-magic package (at least in Debian) that provides libmagic bindings for python. HTH, GiBo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
