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| author | Larry Hajali <larryhaja[at]gmail[dot]com> | 2012-12-21 12:05:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org> | 2012-12-21 21:27:24 +0100 |
| commit | a0c8747e511eb02e1b7e38c24d8110f8a49f1550 (patch) | |
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python/python-magic: Updated for version 0.4.3.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/python/python-magic/README.md b/python/python-magic/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..abfc4748f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/python-magic/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# python-magic + +python-magic is a python interface to the libmagic file type +identification library. libmagic identifies file types by checking +their headers according to a predefined list of file types. This +functionality is exposed to the command line by the Unix command +`file`. + +## Example Usage + + >>> import magic + >>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf") + 'PDF document, version 1.2' + >>> magic.from_buffer(open("testdata/test.pdf").read(1024)) + 'PDF document, version 1.2' + >>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf", mime=True) + 'application/pdf' + +## Installation + +The current stable version of python-magic is available on pypi and +can be installed by running `pip install python-magic`. + +Other sources: + +- pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/ +- github: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic + +### Dependencies on Windows + +On Windows, you need to download and save the following libraries under +`C:\Windows\System32`: + +- `regex2.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/regex/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/regex/) +- `zlib1.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/) +- `magic1.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/file/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/file/) + +## Author + +Written by Adam Hupp in 2001 for a project that never got off the +ground. It origionally used SWIG for the C library bindings, but +switched to ctypes once that was part of the python standard library. + +You can contact me via my [website](http://hupp.org/adam) or +[github](http://github.com/ahupp). + +## Contributors + +Thanks to these folks on github who submitted features and bugfixes. + +- Amit Sethi +- [bigben87](https://github.com/bigben87) +- [fallgesetz](https://github.com/fallgesetz) +- [FlaPer87](https://github.com/FlaPer87) +- [lukenowak](https://github.com/lukenowak) +- NicolasDelaby +- sacha@ssl.co.uk +- SimpleSeb +- [tehmaze](https://github.com/tehmaze) + +## License + +python-magic is distributed under the [PSF License](http://www.python.org/psf/license/). + |