[okfn-labs] File type detection in python-magic, MS Office files

[Marian Steinbach]

Thomas,

thanks for the pointer to OyXDG! That sounds really good. I'll have a look
at it and see if it's possible to integrate it.

Cheers

Marian



2013/4/16 Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com>

> On 16 April 2013 13:55, Marian Steinbach <marian at sendung.de> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to use one magic file accross different platforms? I've
>> had bad luck with a magic and magic.mgc file copied from Ubuntu. Both
>> create error messages.
>
>
> You might look at PyXDG as an alternative. It uses the MIME database
> specified by freedesktop.org (
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html).
> That will only exist on Linux systems, but if you copy the files, or load
> the data you want to use yourself, the code should work on any platform.
>
> PyXDG has been around for years, but I've taken over maintenance of it,
> and I hope to get a version 1.0 out soon, with some substantial
> improvements to the Mime module. It's documented here:
> http://pyxdg.readthedocs.org/en/latest/mime.html
>
> Best wishes,
> Thomas
>
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