Better MIME types in Python.
Project description
mimelib 🙊
A MIME type is a label used to identify a type of data. It is used so software can know how to handle the data. It serves the same purpose on the Internet that file extensions do on Microsoft Windows. — Quentin
mimelib
aims at working with MIME types easier in Python. The standard library comes with the mimetypes
module. This library builds on top of it and adds more niceties to it, so you're generally happier when working with MIME types today.
>>> import mimelib
>>> mimelib.mimetype('application/json').is_text
True
>>> mimelib.url('https://example.com/avatar.jpg').is_image
True
>>> mimelib.url('pianoman.mp3').file_type
media
Installation
To install mimelib, use pipenv (or pip):
$ pipenv install mimelib
Usage
mimelib
is intended to be used alongside the mimetypes
standard library
module, and builds on top of it under the hood. So, if you are adding additional
MIME types to be recognized, mimelib
will work just as fine.
Initialization
Either a valid MIME type string, or a URL or path can be used to work with mimelib
.
>>> m1 = mimelib.mimetype("application/json") # pass a valid MIME type
>>> m2 = mimelib.url("foo/bar/dataset.csv") # or pass a path / url
Both these methods return a MIME
object, the various useful properties of which
are listed below.
Getting the file type
The following file types are reported: text
, image
, media
and binary
.
>>> mimelib.mimetype("application/ecmascript").file_type
text
>>> mimelib.mimetype("video/mpeg").file_type
media
>>> mimelib.url("archive.rar").file_type
binary
The Mime
object also has the following properties for conveniently checking
specific file types:
is_text
is_image
is_media
is_binary
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