Module python-magic on/for Windows - UPDATE: WORKING & HowTo!!!

[Larry Hale]

Thank you, again, Michael, for all your help many months ago.

I *FINALLY* got a HowTo done up; please see http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/FileMagic

I've also emailed Mr. Hupp to see if he'll re-post the SWIG version;
he's working on a newer binding (forget... ctypes??) and once that
one's working... :)

But for now...


Cheers,
Larry


REF:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4c60ec1599056df8/3eff4049a7bfdfc0?hl=en%E3%AD%82a54360c4d26&lnk=gst&q=python-magic#3eff4049a7bfdfc0

[Carl K]

Re: Module python-magic on/for Windows - UPDATE: WORKING & HowTo!!!

Larry Hale wrote:

Thank you, again, Michael, for all your help many months ago.
>
I *FINALLY* got a HowTo done up; please see http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/FileMagic
>
I've also emailed Mr. Hupp to see if he'll re-post the SWIG version;
he's working on a newer binding (forget... ctypes??) and once that
one's working... :)

I need to convert pdf to png, which imagemagic convert does, I think by using
ghostscript. a little over a year ago I tried with some imagemagic (there are
at least 2 i think) and neither seemed close to working (for pdf that is.) any
idea if pdf conversion is working?

Carl K

[Michael Torrie]

Re: Module python-magic on/for Windows - UPDATE: WORKING & HowTo!!!

Carl K wrote:

I need to convert pdf to png, which imagemagic convert does, I think by using
ghostscript. a little over a year ago I tried with some imagemagic (there are
at least 2 i think) and neither seemed close to working (for pdf that is.) any
idea if pdf conversion is working?

python-magic isn't about image conversion. libmagic has nothing to do
with ImageMagick. It's a library for identifying what type of file
something is based in it's signature (magic number). This is the same
library that drives the unix "file" command.

[Carl K]

Re: Module python-magic on/for Windows - UPDATE: WORKING & HowTo!!!

Michael Torrie wrote:

Carl K wrote:

>I need to convert pdf to png, which imagemagic convert does, I think by using
>ghostscript. a little over a year ago I tried with some imagemagic (there are
>at least 2 i think) and neither seemed close to working (for pdf that is.) any
>idea if pdf conversion is working?

>
python-magic isn't about image conversion. libmagic has nothing to do
with ImageMagick. It's a library for identifying what type of file
something is based in it's signature (magic number). This is the same
library that drives the unix "file" command.
>

I was wondering why the docs didn't seem very image related.... Someone may want
to add a note that python-magic isn't PythonMagick:

http://www.imagemagick.org/download/python/PythonMagick-0.8.tar.bz2

Carl K