python-magic
A python wrapper for libmagic (by ahupp)
vignette
A Python library for generating thumbnails following the FreeDesktop specification - mirror of https://gitlab.com/hydrargyrum/vignette (by hydrargyrum)
| python-magic | vignette | |
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| 2,542 | 4 | |
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| 6.0 | 4.4 | |
| 11 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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python-magic
Posts with mentions or reviews of python-magic.
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Lots of files with no extension, need to separate them into jpg and mp4
Perhaps something like this might work (if you know Python).
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Hexdump/File Signature
You can use libmagic for that: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic
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Validating file uploads in Django?
After some more research, i found this package (https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic) that returns the file type / mime type. Would this be sufficient or is this one still prone to "very easy attacks".
vignette
Posts with mentions or reviews of vignette.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning vignette yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
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