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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox tool<br />
|purpose=Puremagic is a cross-platform pure python module that will identify a file based off it's magic numbers<br />
|sourcecode=https://github.com/cdgriffith/puremagic<br />
|license=MIT<br />
|cost=Free<br />
|function=File Format Identification<br />
}}<br />
{{Infobox tool details}}<br />
== Description ==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Advantages over using a wrapper for 'file' or 'libmagic':<br />
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* Faster <br />
* Lightweight<br />
* Cross platform compatible<br />
* No dependencies<br />
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Disadvantages:<br />
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* 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)<br />
* No multilingual comments<br />
* Duplications due to small or reused magic numbers<br />
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(Help fix the first two disadvantages by contributing!)</div>172.104.134.96