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Comprehensive filetype and mimetype detection using libmagic and Pygments.

Project description

  • license: Apache-2.0

  • copyright: copyright (c) nexB. Inc. and others

  • homepage_url: https://github.com/nexB/typecode

  • keywords: filetype, mimetype, libmagic, scancode-toolkit, typecode

TypeCode provides comprehensive filetype and mimetype detection using multiple detectors including libmagic (included as a dependency for Linux, Windows and macOS) and Pygments. It started as library in scancode-toolkit. Visit https://aboutcode.org and https://github.com/nexB/ for support and download.

To install this package with its full capability (where the binaries for libmagic are installed), use the full option:

pip install typecode[full]

If you want to use the version of libmagic (possibly) provided by your operating system, use the minimal option:

pip install typecode

To set up the development environment:

source configure

To run unit tests:

pytest -vvs -n 2

To clean up development environment:

./configure --clean

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