Sometimes, we want to find the MIME type of a file in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to find the MIME type of a file in Python.
How to find the MIME type of a file in Python?
To find the MIME type of a file in Python, we can use the python-magic package.
To install it, we run:
pip install python-magic
Then we use it by writing:
import magic
mime = magic.Magic(mime=True)
t = mime.from_file("foo.csv")
print(t)
We invoke the Magic constructor with mime set to True to let us get the MIME type of the file.
Then we call mime.from_file with the path of the file to get the MIME type of to return the MIME type of the file as a string.
Therefore, t is something like 'text/plain'.
Conclusion
To find the MIME type of a file in Python, we can use the python-magic package.
