How does one use magic to verify file type in a Django form clean method?

Question

I have written an email form class in Django with a FileField. I want to check the uploaded file for its type via checking its mimetype. Subsequently, I want to limit file t

Answer 1

Why no trying something like that in your view :

m = magic.Magic()
m.from_buffer(request.FILES['my_file_field'].read())

Or use request.FILES in place of form.cleaned_data if django.forms.Form is really not an option.