1import magic 2 3ms = magic.open(magic.MAGIC_NONE) 4ms.load() 5type = ms.file("/path/to/some/file") 6print type 7 8f = file("/path/to/some/file", "r") 9buffer = f.read(4096) 10f.close() 11 12type = ms.buffer(buffer) 13print type 14 15ms.close() 16 17