[Zope-dev] Proposal: cleaning up the content-type story

[Tres Seaver]

Thomas Lotze wrote:

> I also wonder whether it might make sense to utilise the /etc/mime.types
> database (or the system's equivalent) for guessing based on the file-name
> extension,

The Python mimetypes module already uses that file in any of the 
"standard" Unix locations.

> and libmagic (if available) for magic-number tests based on
> file contents. But of course, these ideas don't have much to do with the
> restructuring discussed in this thread.

Two PyPI modules claim to do the magic number guessing thing:

- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/0.1 is a ctypes wrapper
   around libmagic -- no sdist ;(

- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/magic/0.1 has its own database inlined
   in the module.  It has no distributions at all, just a link to a bare
   magic.py file.



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