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Find the mime type of a file.

From	Olive <diolu@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Find the mime type of a file.
Date	2012-01-25 18:04 +0100
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<20120125180432.76079215@bigfoot.com> (permalink)

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I want to have a list of all the images in a directory. To do so I want
to have a function that find the mime type of a file. I have found
mimetypes.guess_type but it only works by examining the extension. In
GNU/Linux the "file" utility do much better by actually looking at the
file. Is there an equivalent function in python (as a last resort I can
always use the external file utility).

Olive

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Find the mime type of a file. Olive <diolu@bigfoot.com> - 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100
  Re: Find the mime type of a file. Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-01-25 09:40 -0800
  Re: Find the mime type of a file. Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-25 16:12 -0800

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