August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
10h 14m
English
Content preview from Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook
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Determining the type of a file
When we receive a file from our users, it's frequently necessary to detect its type. Doing so through the filename without the need to actually read the data can be achieved through the mimetypes module.