Exception Value:failed to find libmagic. Check your installation in windows 7

Go here and then:

For Windoes 32bit, download the file "python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win32.whl" and run

pip install python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win32.whl

For Windows 64bit, download "python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl" and run

pip install python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win_amd64.whl

now python-magic works

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EDIT: As suggested in the comments, this also works:

pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14

Your multiuploader form uses python-magic library possibly for filetype identification. However you probably do not have all the missing dependencies installed. Please install the missing dependencies.

https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic#dependencies


As per the documentation the current version of python-magic is 0.4.15

  • You can install the latest released version of python-magic through:

    pip install python-magic
    
  • This will install python-magic-0.4.15 as follows:

    C:\Users\username>pip install python-magic
    Collecting python-magic
      Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/42/a1/76d30c79992e3750dac6790ce16f056f870d368ba142f83f75f694d93001/python_magic-0.4.15-py2.py3-none-any.whl
    Installing collected packages: python-magic
    Successfully installed python-magic-0.4.15
    
  • In the (Windows) documentation it is mentioned:

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

  • You can install the python-magic-bin 0.4.14 through:

    pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14
    
  • This will install python-magic-bin 0.4.14 as follows:

    C:\Users\username>pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14
    Collecting python-magic-bin==0.4.14
      Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5a/5d/10b9ac745d9fd2f7151a2ab901e6bb6983dbd70e87c71111f54859d1ca2e
    /python_magic_bin-0.4.14-py2.py3-none-win32.whl (397kB)
        100% |¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 399kB 473kB/s
    Installing collected packages: python-magic-bin
    Successfully installed python-magic-bin-0.4.14
    
  • Sample Code:

    import magic
    print(magic.from_file("C:/Users/username/Desktop/StackOverflow/Google_Gmail.png"))
    
  • Console Output:

    PNG image data, 1366 x 768, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced