# `file-magic`: Python Bindings
This library is a Python ctypes interface to `libmagic`.
## Installing
You can install `file-magic` either with:
python setup.py install
# or
easy_install .
# or
pip install file-magic
## Using
import magic
detected = magic.detect_from_filename('magic.py')
print 'Detected MIME type: {}'.format(detected.mime_type)
print 'Detected encoding: {}'.format(detected.encoding)
print 'Detected file type name: {}'.format(detected.name)
## Developing/Contributing
To run the tests:
python setup.py test