python-magic
A python wrapper for libmagic (by ahupp)
PyFilesystem2
Python's Filesystem abstraction layer (by PyFilesystem)
| python-magic | PyFilesystem2 | |
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| 3 | 7 | |
| 2,542 | 1,949 | |
| - | 0.3% | |
| 6.0 | 0.0 | |
| 11 days ago | 19 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
python-magic
Posts with mentions or reviews of python-magic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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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".
PyFilesystem2
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyFilesystem2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-29.
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A File Organizer in Python
Or this: https://www.pyfilesystem.org/
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What're the cleanest, most beautifully written projects in Github that are worth studying the code?
Pyfilesytem2 is pretty swell. Also a big fan of nox.
- Why I'm working on Open Source full time
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Introducing Tube Archivist, your self hosted Youtube media server
A better way would be to use this package: https://www.pyfilesystem.org/
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I'm the author of Rich and Textual, two highly starred Python projects on Github. AMA
Working on PyFilesystem (https://github.com/PyFilesystem/pyfilesystem2) I've written a lot of the kind of loops that the walrus operator would help with.
- Filesystem Abstraction for Python
- Fsspec: Filesystem Interfaces for Python
What are some alternatives?
When comparing python-magic and PyFilesystem2 you can also consider the following projects:
watchdog - Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.
pathlib
vignette - A Python library for generating thumbnails following the FreeDesktop specification - mirror of https://gitlab.com/hydrargyrum/vignette
CairoSVG - Convert your vector images
path.py - Object-oriented file system path manipulation
s3fs-fuse - FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3
Unipath - An object-oriented approach to Python file/directory operations.
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