How to find the mime type of a file in python?

Question

Let\'s say you want to save a bunch of files somewhere, for instance in BLOBs. Let\'s say you want to dish these files out via a web page and have the client automatically o

Answer 1

The mimetypes module in the standard library will determine/guess the MIME type from a file extension.

If users are uploading files the HTTP post will contain the MIME type of the file alongside the data. For example, Django makes this data available as an attribute of the UploadedFile object.