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@@ -61,13 +61,9 @@ that must be installed as well: ### Windows -You'll need DLLs for libmagic. @julian-r has uploaded a version of this project that includes binaries to PyPI: -https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic-bin/0.4.14 - -Other sources of the libraries in the past have been [File for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/file.htm) . You will need to copy the file `magic` out of `[binary-zip]\share\misc`, and pass its location to `Magic(magic_file=...)`. - -If you are using a 64-bit build of python, you'll need 64-bit libmagic binaries which can be found here: https://github.com/pidydx/libmagicwin64. Newer version can be found here: https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows. +You'll need DLLs for libmagic. @julian-r maintains a pypi package with the DLLs, you can fetch it with: + $ pip install python-magic-bin ### OSX @@ -83,7 +79,8 @@ If you are using a 64-bit build of python, you'll need 64-bit libmagic binaries - 'WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application': Attempting to run the 32-bit libmagic DLL in a 64-bit build of - python will fail with this error. Here are 64-bit builds of libmagic for windows: https://github.com/pidydx/libmagicwin64 + python will fail with this error. Here are 64-bit builds of libmagic for windows: https://github.com/pidydx/libmagicwin64. + Newer version can be found here: https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows. - 'WindowsError: exception: access violation writing 0x00000000 ' This may indicate you are mixing Windows Python and Cygwin Python. Make sure your libmagic and python builds are consistent. |