On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:02:29 +0100, Luca Fabbri wrote: > I'm looking for a way to be able to load a generic file from the > system and understand if he is plain text. > The mimetype module has some nice methods, but for example it's not > working for file without extension. > > Any suggestion?
You could use the "file" command. It's normally installed by default on Unix systems, but you can get a Windows version from: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list