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+# python-magic
+
+python-magic is a python interface to the libmagic file type
+identification library.  libmagic identifies file types by checking
+their headers according to a predefined list of file types. This
+functionality is exposed to the command line by the Unix command
+`file`.
+
+## Example Usage
+
+    >>> import magic
+    >>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf")
+    'PDF document, version 1.2'
+    >>> magic.from_buffer(open("testdata/test.pdf").read(1024))
+    'PDF document, version 1.2'
+    >>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf", mime=True)
+    'application/pdf'
+
+## Installation
+
+The current stable version of python-magic is available on pypi and
+can be installed by running `pip install python-magic`.
+
+Other sources:
+
+- pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/
+- github: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic
+
+### Dependencies on Windows
+
+On Windows, you need to download and save the following libraries under
+`C:\Windows\System32`:
+
+-   `regex2.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/regex/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/regex/)
+-   `zlib1.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/)
+-   `magic1.dll` from [sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/file/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/file/)
+
+## Author
+
+Written by Adam Hupp in 2001 for a project that never got off the
+ground.  It origionally used SWIG for the C library bindings, but
+switched to ctypes once that was part of the python standard library.
+
+You can contact me via my [website](http://hupp.org/adam) or
+[github](http://github.com/ahupp).
+
+## Contributors
+
+Thanks to these folks on github who submitted features and bugfixes.
+
+-   Amit Sethi
+-   [bigben87](https://github.com/bigben87)
+-   [fallgesetz](https://github.com/fallgesetz)
+-   [FlaPer87](https://github.com/FlaPer87)
+-   [lukenowak](https://github.com/lukenowak)
+-   NicolasDelaby
+-   sacha@ssl.co.uk
+-   SimpleSeb
+-   [tehmaze](https://github.com/tehmaze)
+
+## License
+
+python-magic is distributed under the [PSF License](http://www.python.org/psf/license/).
+