On 31/05/2019 11:03, Sunil Tech wrote:
> Hi Tutor,
>
> Is there any way that I can actually programmatically compare the file
> extension with its content?
For images the standard library offers imghdr I'm not sure how
reliable or accurate it is but it claims to identify a dozen
or so of the mos
On 31May2019 12:38, ingo wrote:
Many file formats have "magic bytes" that you can use for that purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures
Also, UNIX systems ship with a command called "file" which inspects a
file's leading data for such magic numbers to identify their cont
Many file formats have "magic bytes" that you can use for that purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures
Ingo
On 31-5-2019 12:03, Sunil Tech wrote:
> Hi Tutor,
>
> Is there any way that I can actually programmatically compare the file
> extension with its content?
>
> This
Hi Tutor,
Is there any way that I can actually programmatically compare the file
extension with its content?
This is because we can manually save the file in one extension and later
rename the file extension to some other.
Thanks
- Sunil. G
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