1 2This directory contains Python bindings to allow you to access the 3libmagic api. At the moment their status is "experimental" and 4they are not built by default. You may need to edit include and library 5search paths in setup.py so that python's distutils build process can 6find the magic header and lib files. 7 8In order to be able to compile magic-python you need to have python 9and the python-dev packages installed. 10 11Python libraries are always built for a particular version of Python 12(2.2, 2.3, etc), and libraries built for one version will not be seen 13by another. 14 15To build: 16 17$ python setup.py build 18 19Now, you can install the modules: 20 21$ cp build/lib.*/magic.so /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/ 22 23(the directory /usr/lib/python2.3 may vary, depending on your installation) 24 25magic-python should work now! 26 27