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diff --git a/python/python-magic/README.md b/python/python-magic/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index abfc4748f2..0000000000 --- a/python/python-magic/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -# 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`. - -## Example Usage - - >>> import magic - >>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf") - 'PDF document, version 1.2' - >>> magic.from_buffer(open("testdata/test.pdf").read(1024)) - 'PDF document, version 1.2' - >>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf", mime=True) - 'application/pdf' - -## Installation - -The current stable version of python-magic is available on pypi and -can be installed by running `pip install python-magic`. - -Other sources: - -- pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/ -- github: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic - -### Dependencies on Windows - -On Windows, you need to download and save the following libraries under -`C:\Windows\System32`: - -- `regex2.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/regex/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/regex/) -- `zlib1.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/) -- `magic1.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/file/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/file/) - -## Author - -Written by Adam Hupp in 2001 for a project that never got off the -ground. It origionally used SWIG for the C library bindings, but -switched to ctypes once that was part of the python standard library. - -You can contact me via my [website](http://hupp.org/adam) or -[github](http://github.com/ahupp). - -## Contributors - -Thanks to these folks on github who submitted features and bugfixes. - -- Amit Sethi -- [bigben87](https://github.com/bigben87) -- [fallgesetz](https://github.com/fallgesetz) -- [FlaPer87](https://github.com/FlaPer87) -- [lukenowak](https://github.com/lukenowak) -- NicolasDelaby -- sacha@ssl.co.uk -- SimpleSeb -- [tehmaze](https://github.com/tehmaze) - -## License - -python-magic is distributed under the [PSF License](http://www.python.org/psf/license/). - |