Python check file type

Laxmikant Ratnaparkhi Laxmikant Ratnaparkhi 4, 4 4 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 46 46 bronze badges. I don't think the urllib is required in your example. X replace import urllib with from urllib import request.

And then use "request" instead of urllib — Arjun Thakur. Works for python 2. Gringo Suave Gringo Suave Sure, why not??

There are 3 different libraries that wraps libmagic. It seems to me another take by the original author of libmagic. Too bad is not available directly on pypi. I added a repo for convenience: github. This is unnecessary, since the file command is basically just a wrapper around libmagic.

You may as well just use the python binding python-magic , as in Simon's answer. That depends on the operating system. On Mac OS X, for example, you have "file" but not libmagic in the normal environment. Pedro Lobito Pedro Lobito 82k 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Nowdays you can just do subprocess.

There is really no reason to resort to using an external tool when python-magic does the equivalent thing, all wrapped and cozy. You should install python-magic, using pip3 install python-magic For Mac OS X, you should also install libmagic using brew install libmagic Code snippet import urllib import magic from urllib. Will it be load whole file? No, it's a stream, so normally just few bytes. I've edited by response.

I try mimetypes library first. If it's not working, I use python-magic libary instead. Jak Liao Jak Liao 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Helder Helder 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. I don't think that's true. The MIME type is about how to tell others about a data format, not about how to find out the data format yourself. If you use a tool that guesses the format only based on the extension and prints out MIME types then you can't use that tool if there are no file extensions.

But other ways to guess the format are possible as well, e. Example checking if files is mp3 from mutagen. Artem Bernatskyi Artem Bernatskyi 2, 2 2 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. For byte Array type data you can use magic. Files with extension. The below example shows how to find files in the directory with a certain extension using the listdir function and the endswith function with the comprehension method.

The below example shows how to find files in the directory with a certain extension using the glob and os module. In this tutorial, we learned how to find the files with specified extensions using the python in-built function endswith and the glob and os module.

Learn CSS. Learn JavaScript. C Language C Tutorial. C Compiler. Standard Template Library. Python Python Tutorial. Python Programs. Python How Tos. Numpy Module. Matplotlib Module. Tkinter Module. Network Programming with Python. Learn Web Scraping. Here are the steps for Python check file exists or not: Steps 1 Import the os.

The Python isfile method is used to find whether a given path is an existing regular file or not. It returns a boolean value true if the specific path is an existing file or else it returns false. It can be used by the syntax : os. If we want to confirm that a given path points to a directory, we can use the os. Is it Directory? False Is it Directory? Python 3. You have to just place the variable name inside the type function, and python returns the datatype.

Mostly, We use it for debugging purposes. In such a case, it will return you a new type of object. The object argument is the required parameter to be passed inside the type function. The argument can be string, integer, list, tuple, set, dictionary, float, etc.