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Check file mimetype
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mimetype_check.py
## this snippet requires `sudo pip install python-magic`
import magic
acceptable_type = ['text/plain', 'text/csv', 'text/xml', 'application/xml']
mimetype = magic.from_file( file, mime=True )
# validate mimetype
if ( mimetype not in acceptable_type ): print 'Invalid mimetype'
else: print 'Valid mimetype'
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