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I have a WordPress site and in order to be able to upload python files I need to know the file's mime type. What is the mime type of a Python file? All I found was how to find the mime type of other files in python.
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For detecting MIME-types, use the aptly named "mimetype" command. It has a number of options for formatting the output, it even has an option for backward compatibility to "file". But most of all, it accepts input not only as file, but also via stdin/pipe, so you can avoid temporary files when processing streams.
Use "application/octet-stream" for the "All files (*)" filter, since that is the base MIME type for all files.
Once you use magic to get the MIME type, you can use mimetypes. guess_extension() to get the extension for it.
MIME types enable browsers to recognize the filetype of a file which has been sent via HTTP by the webserver. As a result the browser is able to choose a suitable displaying method. Common MIME types are for example text/html for html-files or image/jpeg for jpeg-files.
The MIME types provide the name which will be used to identify each file type. Developers many times do not know the MIME type of the file and need it to be determined by itself. Python provides a module named mimetypes that provides a list of methods that has a mapping from file extensions to MIME type and vice-versa.
MIME types (IANA media types) A media type (also known as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions or MIME type) is a standard that indicates the nature and format of a document, file, or assortment of bytes. It is defined and standardized in IETF's RFC 6838.
The subtype identifies the exact kind of data of the specified type the MIME type represents. For example, for the MIME type text, the subtype might be plain (plain text), html (HTML source code), or calendar (for iCalendar/.ics) files.
To specify a UTF-8 text file, the MIME type text/plain;charset=UTF-8is used. MIME types are case-insensitive but are traditionally written in lowercase, with the exception of parameter values, whose case may or may not have specific meaning. Types. There are two classes of type: discreteand multipart.
It should be application/x-python-code or text/x-python.
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