Skip to main content
# python-libmagic

![magic.h](http://i.imgur.com/GbN8szC.jpg)

# Usage

```python
import magic

with magic.Magic() as m:
print m.from_buffer("hello") # => "text/plain"
```

```python
import magic
import magic.flags

magic = magic.Magic()
mimetype = magic.from_buffer("\x89\x50\x4E\x47\x0D\x0A\x1A\x0A")
print mimetype # => "image/png"

mimetype = magic.from_file("/etc/passwd")
print mimetype # => "text/plain"

updated = magic.set_flags(magic.flags.MAGIC_NONE)
print updated # => True
mimetype = magic.from_file("demo.docx")
print mimetype # => "Microsoft Word 2007+"
magic.close() # don't forget about this
```

# Installation

`python-libmagic` works on CPython 2.7/3.3+ and PyPy.

```bash
$ apt-get install libmagic-dev
$ pip install python-libmagic
```

# License

Licensed under MIT license.

Release files for python-libmagic 0.4.0

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for python-libmagic 0.4.0
File Size Uploaded
python-libmagic-0.4.0.tar.gz 3.6 kB Details

Release files / python-libmagic-0.4.0.tar.gz

Download URL python-libmagic-0.4.0.tar.gz
Size 3.6 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
fd42e14fca5f346e36b6a8e984f0798f02f38e5eb1b4868424b1480293baacb1
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
43793bf793efcf94e730bf324b726b3ae551f9438869bb8995600784bdb17693
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

This release

0.4.0 This release

1 release file

0.3.0

1 release file

0.2.0

1 release file

0.1.0

1 release file

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page