get Windows file type

[BartlebyScrivener]

Using Python on Windows XP, I am able to get almost all file and path
info using os.path or stat, but I don't see a way to retrieve the file
type? E.g. Microsoft Word file, HTML file, etc, the equivalent of what
is listed in the "Type" column in the Windows Explorer box.

Thanks,

rick

 

[Sybren Stuvel]

BartlebyScrivener enlightened us with:

Using Python on Windows XP, I am able to get almost all file and
path info using os.path or stat, but I don't see a way to retrieve
the file type? E.g. Microsoft Word file, HTML file, etc, the
equivalent of what is listed in the "Type" column in the Windows
Explorer box.

I'm afraid you'll have to get that from the registry. That will only
give you the descriptive name of the extension, though, and not the
type of contents of the file, i.e. if you have a HTML file named
'somefile.avi', Windows recognises it as an AVI and not an HTML file.

Sybren

 

[dwelch]

Using Python on Windows XP, I am able to get almost all file and path
info using os.path or stat, but I don't see a way to retrieve the file
type? E.g. Microsoft Word file, HTML file, etc, the equivalent of what
is listed in the "Type" column in the Windows Explorer box.

Thanks,

rick

This worked well for me on Linux, should work on Windows:

http://www.demonseed.net/~jp/code/magic.py

-Don

 

[Roger Upole]

If you have pywin32 installed, you can use the shell module.

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
shell.SHGetFileInfo(filename ,0, shellcon.SHGFI_TYPENAME)

Roger