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I am looking for a function in Python to determine the type of a file. I mean, the input is the path where the file is located, and the output is the type.

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    What do you call type, to the extension? Commented Aug 12, 2018 at 14:35
  • Please, provide example of input and output. Do you need pathlib.PurePath.suffix method? Commented Aug 12, 2018 at 14:58

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If looking at the extension is enough, mimetypes.guess_type() is your friend.

For more robust identification, you might want to look at python-magic.

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The Python Magic library provides the functionality you need.

You can install the library with pip install python-magic and use it as follows:

>>> import magic >>> magic.from_file('filename')
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