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

@toivotuo 's method worked best and most reliably for me under python3. My goal was to identify gzipped files which do not have a reliable .gz extension. I installed python3-magic.

import magic

filename = "./datasets/test"

def file_mime_type(filename):
    m = magic.open(magic.MAGIC_MIME)
    m.load()
    return(m.file(filename))

print(file_mime_type(filename))

for a gzipped file it returns: application/gzip; charset=binary

for an unzipped txt file (iostat data): text/plain; charset=us-ascii

for a tar file: application/x-tar; charset=binary

for a bz2 file: application/x-bzip2; charset=binary

and last but not least for me a .zip file: application/zip; charset=binary