Introduction

Using python standard library

Python comes with a module called mime types that can be used to guess the mime type of a filename. The only problem with this library is that it does guess using the filename and not by the contents:

import mimetypes print(mimetypes.MimeTypes().guess_type('my_file.txt')[0]) if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-tutorials_technology-medrectangle-3-0')}; The previous code will print text/plain.

Guess mime type with python using file contents

You can use the package pyhon-magic to guess the mime type using the file contents. First, install the library with:

pip install python-magic

Then you can use it like this example:

import magic mime = magic.Magic(mime=True) mime.from_file("my_file.txt")