On May 11, 11:42 pm, Larry Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THANKS, AGAIN, for the reply! :) > > Okay, now I -really- feel silly... :> > > So, when I was going to try what you'd suggested, I noticed something > peculiar: I hadn't "changed" anything on my system, but now, when I > tried to "import magic" I got a missing DLL error. For a DIFFERENT > DLL! This got me to thinking... > > Turns out, when I was having "success" earlier, I was -in- the C: > \Program Files\GnuWin32\bin directory (where file.exe and related .dll > files are). > > So I added C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin to the (system/Windows) > PATH. Everything worked. I removed all the copious copies of the > DLL, the magic files, etc., littering my hard drive in every other > location. Still worked. > > 'Course, I don't honestly know why it didn't work with the files > copied to other locales contained in the sys/Py paths... perhaps it > was, as you mentioned, wanting the tree-structure to be the same? (I > haven't the heart to check this out fully right now... *maybe* at a > later time... ;) ) > > Yeah, I know. But HONESTLY! I could have -sworn- I'd already tried > THAT... you know, all the "obvious"/"I've been programming/working in > computers (albeit 'Windows' until lately) for ~25 years; yeah, I'm a > 'hacker'..." stuff. I -swear-! > > [EGG ON FACE] > > [SIGH] Well, I'd say "live and learn", but I'm still scratching my > head. But, 'nough of that. Thanks for your replies, Michael, and I'm > off to work _with_ the module now, then work-up my HowTo (and > experiment with making an "egg"?? ;) )... > > Caio! > -Larry :P :) > > On May 11, 11:09 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Larry Hale wrote: > > > ALSO: I've even tried putting the 4 "magic" files INTO the .egg > > > file... still no-go. :/ > > > It's often the custom of programs ported from unix to windows to use the > > dll location as a key to find the other files that are typically in > > share, or etc. GTK, for example uses ../share and ../etc from the > > location where the dlls are stored (if the dlls are in a folder called bin). > > > In this case I'd try making a folder in the Python25 folder called > > "share" and put the contents of the gnuwin32 share/file stuff in there. > > Should look something like this: > > > c:/python25/share/file/magic.mime.mgc > > c:/python25/share/file/magic > > c:/python25/share/file/magic.mgc > > c:/python25/share/file/magic.mime > > > Or, judging by a string I found in the dll itself, you might have to put > > the files here: > > > c:/progra~1/File/share/file/magic > > > Although if such a path really is hardcoded into the dll, this is > > certainly a bug, since it will fail on certain non-english windows systems. > > > Anyway, who knows. Give these options a try.
UPDATE: HOORAY!!! Well, actually, was about two steps forward, one back. But I've gotten it all sorted out now! :) I added C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin to the system/Windows PATH. This takes care of the various required DLLs/libs. The file source (previously linked from http://hupp.org/adam/hg/python-magic/) has the man pages. I'd overlooked these as they were only modified as necessary; the "BSD" part made me think they'd be the same as the same online versions I'd already read (that were *nix specific). Obviously, I was wrong. These had the default paths to the magic* files listed; C:\Program Files\File\share\file\. If one creates said directory structure and moves/copies/unpacks the magic ("database") files THERE, then one may do: >>> import magic >>> test = magic.Magic() # <-- New Magic class instance >>> test.from_file( 'C:\\startrek.exe' ) # <-- Yeah, I have an old Star Trek game file here to test with... :) 'MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS' # <-- This is what's returned... Alternately, if one wishes to leave/place the magic files elsewhere, do like: >>> test = magic.Magic( magic_file = 'C:\\Program Files\\GnuWin32\ \share\\file\\magic' ) # <-- spec where/what the file is NOTE: Even if the "magic_file" location *is* specified, "mime = True" still works fine. (Haven't checked, but I presume the source simply tacks ".mime" to the filename automagically.) Obviously/also, one needn't specify the argument names if one uses proper argument order: magic.Magic( mime, magic_file ) :) THANKS SO MUCH, Michael, for your answers and helping me alone the way... :) Cheers, -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
