How to get the mime of a file through Python?

Solution with Python-magic :

import magic
m = magic.Magic(mime=True)
mime_type = m.from_file("arquivo.pdf")
print mime_type

Edit:

According to the official website of the Python-magic library, there are 2 factors that could cause the above code to not work.

The first factor is a library name conflict because there are two libraries called magic for Python! The correct library would be Python-magic-0.4.13 .

The second factor (which may cause non-functioning in Windows) are the dependencies that need to be installed.

On Windows, the file vice utility must exist on the machine and its path must be passed as an argument to the constructor:

import magic
m = magic.Magic(magic_file="C:\windows\system32\file.exe")
mime_type = m.from_file("arquivo.pdf")
print mime_type

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shlex:

import subprocess
import shlex

file_name = 'pdf.fake'
cmd = shlex.split('file --mime-type {0}'.format(file_name))
result = subprocess.check_output(cmd)
mime_type = result.split()[-1]
print (mime_type)

Output:

b'application/pdf'

You can use the mimetypes library:

>>> import urllib, mimetypes
>>> 
>>> url = urllib.pathname2url('meu_arquivo.xml')
>>> print mimetypes.guess_type(url)
('application/xml', None)

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