Python-magic installation error - ImportError: failed to find libmagic

Question

I am trying to install python-magic for Windows and I have followed all the instructions in https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic and repeated the process several times but

Answer 1

The below original answer is now outdated. Please simply follow the instructions denoted under the "dependencies" section.

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ORIGINAL ANSWER:

I was able to solve this problem by moving the 3 files from GNUWin32 project to a separate directory (not the \system32 directory the docs suggest) and adding them to the PATH environment variable