Detecting MIME type of a shared file

[James Simmons]

Tomeu,

The zipfile.is_zipfile(filename) method solved my problem.  I was able 
to successfully share a Zip file between two computers running my 
activity.  Still some kinks to iron out, though.  I'll keep your 
suggestion in mind for the future.

Thanks,

James Simmons


Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:08 PM, James Simmons
><jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>  
>
>> 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.
>>    
>>
>
>As a rule of thumb, I would first try to get a mime-type I can trust,
>and only if I cannot (I get for example application/octet-stream), I
>would try to sniff the type.
>
>But in your case you may be right by just sniffing it.
>
>Tomeu
>  
>

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