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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ohcnetwork/python-magic-bin
- Owner: ohcnetwork
- License: other
- Created: 2025-03-12T17:46:38.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-11-01T23:16:06.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-10T06:22:24.331Z (6 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 846 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG
- License: LICENSE
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# python-magic
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[python-magic](https://github.com/ahupp/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`](https://www.darwinsys.com/file/).
## Usage
```python
>>> import magic
>>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf")
'PDF document, version 1.2'
# recommend using at least the first 2048 bytes, as less can produce incorrect identification
>>> magic.from_buffer(open("testdata/test.pdf", "rb").read(2048))
'PDF document, version 1.2'
>>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf", mime=True)
'application/pdf'
```
There is also a `Magic` class that provides more direct control,
including overriding the magic database file and turning on character
encoding detection. This is not recommended for general use. In
particular, it's not safe for sharing across multiple threads and
will fail throw if this is attempted.
```python
>>> f = magic.Magic(uncompress=True)
>>> f.from_file('testdata/test.gz')
'ASCII text (gzip compressed data, was "test", last modified: Sat Jun 28 21:32:52 2008, from Unix)'
```
You can also combine the flag options:
```python
>>> f = magic.Magic(mime=True, uncompress=True)
>>> f.from_file('testdata/test.gz')
'text/plain'
```
## Installation
This module is a simple [CDLL](https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html) wrapper around the libmagic C library.
The current stable version of python-magic is available on [PyPI](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/)
and can be installed by running `pip install python-magic`.
Compiled libmagic and the magic database come bundled in the wheels on PyPI.
You can use your own `magic.mgc` database by setting the `MAGIC`
environment variable, or by using `magic.Magic(magic_file='path/to/magic.mgc')`.
If you want to compile your own libmagic, circumvent the wheels
by installing from source: `pip install python-magic --no-binary python-magic`.
For systems not supported by the wheels, pip installs from source,
requiring libmagic to be available before installing python-magic:
### Linux
The Linux wheels should run on most systems out of the box.
Depending on your system and CPU architecture, there might be no compatible wheel uploaded.
However, precompiled libmagic might still be available for your system:
```sh
# Debian/Ubuntu
apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmagic1
# Alpine
apk add --update libmagic
# RHEL
dnf install file-libs
```
### Windows
The DLLs that are bundled in the Windows wheels are compiled by @julian-r
and are hosted at https://github.com/julian-r/file-windows/releases.
For ARM64 Windows, you'll need to compile libmagic from source.
### OSX
The Mac wheels are compiled with maximum backward compatibility.
For older Macs, you'll need to install libmagic from source:
```sh
# homebrew
brew install libmagic
# macports
port install file
```
If python-magic fails to load the library it may be in a non-standard location, in which case you can set the environment variable `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` to point to it.
### SmartOS:
- Install libmagic for source https://github.com/threatstack/libmagic/
- Depending on your ./configure --prefix settings set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /lib
### Troubleshooting
- 'MagicException: could not find any magic files!': some
installations of libmagic do not correctly point to their magic
database file. Try specifying the path to the file explicitly in the
constructor: `magic.Magic(magic_file='path/to/magic.mgc')`.
- 'WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application':
Attempting to run the 32-bit libmagic DLL in a 64-bit build of
python will fail with this error. Here are 64-bit builds of libmagic for windows: https://github.com/pidydx/libmagicwin64.
Newer version can be found here: https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows.
- 'WindowsError: exception: access violation writing 0x00000000 ' This may indicate you are mixing
Windows Python and Cygwin Python. Make sure your libmagic and python builds are consistent.
## Bug Reports
python-magic is a thin layer over the libmagic C library.
Historically, most bugs that have been reported against python-magic
are actually bugs in libmagic; libmagic bugs can be reported on their
tracker here: https://bugs.astron.com/my_view_page.php. If you're not
sure where the bug lies feel free to file an issue on GitHub and I can
triage it.
## Running the tests
We use the `tox` test runner which can be installed with `python -m pip install tox`.
To run tests locally across all available python versions:
```
python -m tox
```
Or to run just against a single version:
```
python -m tox py
```
To run the tests across a variety of linux distributions (depends on Docker):
```
./test/run_all_docker_test.sh
```
## libmagic python API compatibility
The python bindings shipped with libmagic use a module name that conflicts with this package. To work around this, python-magic includes a compatibility layer for the libmagic API. See [COMPAT.md](COMPAT.md) for a guide to libmagic / python-magic compatibility.
## Versioning
Minor version bumps should be backwards compatible. Major bumps are not.
## Author
Written by Adam Hupp in 2001 for a project that never got off the
ground. It originally 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).
## License
python-magic is distributed under the MIT license. See the included
LICENSE file for details.
I am providing code in the repository to you under an open source license. Because this is my personal repository, the license you receive to my code is from me and not my employer (Facebook).