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 magic library.
To install it, we run
pip install python-magic
We also have to install a few packages in the OS the script is running on.
In Ubuntu like distros we run
sudo apt-get install libmagic1
And on Windows, we run
pip install python-magic-bin
On OS X, we run brew install libmagic with Homebrew or port install file with macports.
Then we use it by writing
import magic
mime = magic.Magic(mime=True)
mime_type = mime.from_file("testdata/test.pdf")
to create a Magic object.
Then we call from_file on it with the path to our file to return its MIME type.
Conclusion
To find the mime type of a file in Python, we can use the magic library.
