Detecting MIME type of a shared file

[James Simmons]

Tomeu and Michael,

It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will 
identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the "magic number", 
not the filename.  It seems to do the trick.

Thanks,

James Simmons

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
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>>On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> > how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when
>> > someone shares a file with me?
>>
>> You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' command.
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>I think you can also add that mime type to the tube's metadata and
>read it from the receiving side?
>
>Tomeu
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