Python Magic

python-magic is a Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library. libmagic identifies file types by checking their headers according to a predefined list of file types. This functionality is exposed to the command line by the Unix command file.

caution

Since the python-magic library may treat audio files like mp3 as programs or application/octet-stream and it’s a bit annoying, I suggest when you want to validate audio files from two libraries (filetype, MimeTypes, pure magic) or use the safe mode method.

If you want to use File Validators made using the python-magic library, you should add it to your program as follows:

from file_validator.validators import file_validator_by_python_magic

Just call this function and give the function path of the file and the mimes you want the files to be validated based on:

from file_validator.validators import file_validator_by_python_magic

file_validator_by_python_magic(acceptable_mimes=['audio/mpeg', 'video/mp4'], file_path='/path/to/file')

info

Description of the return value and the function parameters:

Parameters	Type	Description
file_path	string	The path to the file you want to validate
acceptable_mimes	list	The mime of the files you want to validate based on them, example: image/png

Returns:
If everything is OK it will return information about file such file name, file mime, file type, file extensions , otherwise it will return a FileValidationException.