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Purpose* A single sentence describing the function of the tool. Keep it factual and concise:	Puremagic is a cross-platform pure python module that will identify a file based off it's magic numbers
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== Description == It is designed to be minimalistic and inherently cross platform compatible. It is also designed to be a stand in for python-magic, it incorporates the functions from_file(filename[, mime]) and from_string(string[, mime]) however the magic_file() and magic_string() are more powerful and will also display confidence and duplicate matches. It does NOT try to match files off non-magic string. In other words it will not search for a string within a certain window of bytes like others might. Advantages over using a wrapper for 'file' or 'libmagic': * Faster * Lightweight * Cross platform compatible * No dependencies Disadvantages: * Does not have [https://github.com/cdgriffith/puremagic/blob/master/puremagic/magic_data.json as many] file types. ("Only" 1600 at the time of posting) * No multilingual comments * Duplications due to small or reused magic numbers (Help fix the first two disadvantages by contributing!)

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