pylibmagic

import pylibmagic import magic # pylibmagic ensures the underlying libmagic library is available # You can inspect the data path it uses: print(f"pylibmagic data path: {pylibmagic.data}") # Now, use the python-magic library as usual try: m = magic.Magic() file_type = m.from_buffer(b"hello world") print(f"'hello world' is detected as: {file_type}") # Example with a common file type with open("temp_text.txt", "w") as f: f.write("This is a test file.") file_type_from_file = m.from_file("temp_text.txt") print(f"'temp_text.txt' is detected as: {file_type_from_file}") import os os.remove("temp_text.txt") except Exception as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}") print("Ensure 'python-magic' is also installed (`pip install python-magic`).")