Hello Edward! On Thursday 15 March 2007 03:53, Edward A Robinson wrote: > I guess what Im looking for is a python command that dose what the > file command in the shell would do
I don't think there is anything like this in Python's standard library. Probably Gnome has a library for identifying the file type (I've read that KDE has one). So you could ask on a Gnome mailing list for that library and use it. Offcourse you could use the 'file' program and parse the output. Regards, Eike. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
