How to find the mime type of a file in python?

Question

Let\'s say you want to save a bunch of files somewhere, for instance in BLOBs. Let\'s say you want to dish these files out via a web page and have the client automatically o

Answer 1

in python 2.6:

mime = subprocess.Popen("/usr/bin/file --mime PATH", shell=True, \
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]