Python script mime type is text/x-java !

[Stéphane Brunner]

Binary package hint: file

I have a Python script file named oa2osm.py.

I do on it :
$ file oa2osm.py
oa2osm.py: python script text executable
$ file --mime-type oa2osm.py
oa2osm.py: text/x-java

Than it seem that the mime type is missing for python script !

[Stéphane Brunner (stephane-brunner)]

I think that the line :

!:mime text/x-python

is missing next to the line :

0 string/b #!\ /usr/bin/python python script text executable

in the file /usr/share/file/magic

[JustDevZero (justdevzero)]

This still happen on Ubuntu Lucid LTS 10.04
Linux Desktop 2.6.32-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 14:17:33 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) (yannick-duchene)]

Same for me on Ubuntu Maverick and file-5.03

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) (yannick-duchene)]

The workaround suggested in post #1 does not solve the bug.

Further more, this is not just about MIME type of Python files.

ex.
> $ file -b --mime-type JavaScript.js
> text/x-c++

Silly. The file command should not be used at all, it's not reliable.

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) (yannick-duchene)]

Workaround which really works.

Use `xdg-mime query filetype FILE_PATH` instead of `file -b --mime-type FILE_PATH`. But you have to ensure you've installed gvfs-bin for it to work, because there is also a bug in xdg-mime, which makes it not working if gvfs-bin is not installed.

See also : http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/bug-618624-xdg-utils-xdg-mime-query-filetype-file-no-output-at-due-missing-recommends-help-202577262.html

[Neal McBurnett (nealmcb)]

When I checked a collection of python scripts with the "file -i" command, I got a mix of text/plain, text/x-java and a few text/x-python. Even text/x-c++. It isn't immediately evident what might be triggering that.

As noted in comment #5, "xdg-mime query filetype" worked, on all of them. But that doesn't support the "-f" option to read a list of filenames to be checked from a given file.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Has this been sent upstream?
http://bugs.gw.com/view_all_bug_page.php