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

I try mimetypes library first. If it's not working, I use python-magic libary instead.

import mimetypes
def guess_type(filename, buffer=None):
mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)
if mimetype is None:
    try:
        import magic
        if buffer:
            mimetype = magic.from_buffer(buffer, mime=True)
        else:
            mimetype = magic.from_file(filename, mime=True)
    except ImportError:
        pass
return mimetype