Is this fixed now? On Xenial: # apt-get install python-magic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: python-magic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5,374 B of archives. After this operation, 54.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 python-magic all 1:5.25-2ubuntu1 [5,374 B] Fetched 5,374 B in 0s (27.8 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package python-magic. (Reading database ... 305679 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python-magic_1%3a5.25-2ubuntu1_all.deb ... Unpacking python-magic (1:5.25-2ubuntu1) ... Setting up python-magic (1:5.25-2ubuntu1) ... # python Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29) [GCC 5.3.1 20160413] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import magic >>> dir(magic) ['APPLE', 'ARRAY', 'ArgumentError', 'Array', 'BigEndianStructure', 'CDLL', 'CFUNCTYPE', 'CHECK', 'COMPRESS', 'CONTINUE', 'DEBUG', 'DEFAULT_MODE', 'DEVICES', 'ERROR', 'LibraryLoader', 'LittleEndianStructure', 'MAGIC_APPLE', 'MAGIC_CHECK', 'MAGIC_COMPRESS', 'MAGIC_CONTINUE', 'MAGIC_DEBUG', 'MAGIC_DEVICES', 'MAGIC_ERROR', 'MAGIC_MIME', 'MAGIC_MIME_ENCODING', 'MAGIC_MIME_TYPE', 'MAGIC_NONE', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_APPTYPE', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_BUILTIN', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_CDF', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_COMPRESS', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_ELF', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_ENCODING', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_SOFT', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TAR', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TEXT', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TOKENS', 'MAGIC_PRESERVE_ATIME', 'MAGIC_RAW', 'MAGIC_SYMLINK', 'MIME', 'MIME_ENCODING', 'MIME_TYPE', 'Magic', 'NONE', 'NO_CHECK_APPTYPE', 'NO_CHECK_BUILTIN', 'NO_CHECK_CDF', 'NO_CHECK_COMPRESS', 'NO_CHECK_ELF', 'NO_CHECK_ENCODING', 'NO_CHECK_SOFT', 'NO_CHECK_TAR', 'NO_CHECK_TEXT', 'NO_CHECK_TOKENS', 'POINTER', 'PRESERVE_ATIME', 'PYFUNCTYPE', 'PyDLL', 'RAW', 'RTLD_GLOBAL', 'RTLD_LOCAL', 'SYMLINK', 'SetPointerType', 'Structure', 'Union', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '_buffer', '_check', '_close', '_compile', '_descriptor', '_errno', '_error', '_file', '_init', '_libraries', '_list', '_load', '_open', '_setflags', 'addressof', 'alignment', 'byref', 'c_bool', 'c_buffer', 'c_byte', 'c_char', 'c_char_p', 'c_double', 'c_float', 'c_int', 'c_int16', 'c_int32', 'c_int64', 'c_int8', 'c_long', 'c_longdouble', 'c_longlong', 'c_short', 'c_size_t', 'c_ssize_t', 'c_ubyte', 'c_uint', 'c_uint16', 'c_uint32', 'c_uint64', 'c_uint8', 'c_ulong', 'c_ulonglong', 'c_ushort', 'c_void_p', 'c_voidp', 'c_wchar', 'c_wchar_p', 'cast', 'cdll', 'create_string_buffer', 'create_unicode_buffer', 'ctypes', 'find_library', 'get_errno', 'magic_set', 'magic_t', 'memmove', 'memset', 'open', 'pointer', 'py_object', 'pydll', 'pythonapi', 'resize', 'set_conversion_mode', 'set_errno', 'sizeof', 'string_at', 'wstring_at'] # apt-get install python3-magic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: python3-magic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5,438 B of archives. After this operation, 54.3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 python3-magic all 1:5.25-2ubuntu1 [5,438 B] Fetched 5,438 B in 0s (40.1 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package python3-magic. (Reading database ... 305686 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python3-magic_1%3a5.25-2ubuntu1_all.deb ... Unpacking python3-magic (1:5.25-2ubuntu1) ... Setting up python3-magic (1:5.25-2ubuntu1) ... # python3 Python 3.5.1+ (default, Mar 30 2016, 22:46:26) [GCC 5.3.1 20160330] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import magic >>> dir(magic) ['APPLE', 'ARRAY', 'ArgumentError', 'Array', 'BigEndianStructure', 'CDLL', 'CFUNCTYPE', 'CHECK', 'COMPRESS', 'CONTINUE', 'DEBUG', 'DEFAULT_MODE', 'DEVICES', 'ERROR', 'LibraryLoader', 'LittleEndianStructure', 'MAGIC_APPLE', 'MAGIC_CHECK', 'MAGIC_COMPRESS', 'MAGIC_CONTINUE', 'MAGIC_DEBUG', 'MAGIC_DEVICES', 'MAGIC_ERROR', 'MAGIC_MIME', 'MAGIC_MIME_ENCODING', 'MAGIC_MIME_TYPE', 'MAGIC_NONE', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_APPTYPE', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_BUILTIN', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_CDF', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_COMPRESS', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_ELF', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_ENCODING', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_SOFT', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TAR', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TEXT', 'MAGIC_NO_CHECK_TOKENS', 'MAGIC_PRESERVE_ATIME', 'MAGIC_RAW', 'MAGIC_SYMLINK', 'MIME', 'MIME_ENCODING', 'MIME_TYPE', 'Magic', 'NONE', 'NO_CHECK_APPTYPE', 'NO_CHECK_BUILTIN', 'NO_CHECK_CDF', 'NO_CHECK_COMPRESS', 'NO_CHECK_ELF', 'NO_CHECK_ENCODING', 'NO_CHECK_SOFT', 'NO_CHECK_TAR', 'NO_CHECK_TEXT', 'NO_CHECK_TOKENS', 'POINTER', 'PRESERVE_ATIME', 'PYFUNCTYPE', 'PyDLL', 'RAW', 'RTLD_GLOBAL', 'RTLD_LOCAL', 'SYMLINK', 'SetPointerType', 'Structure', 'Union', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', '_buffer', '_check', '_close', '_compile', '_descriptor', '_errno', '_error', '_file', '_init', '_libraries', '_list', '_load', '_open', '_setflags', 'addressof', 'alignment', 'byref', 'c_bool', 'c_buffer', 'c_byte', 'c_char', 'c_char_p', 'c_double', 'c_float', 'c_int', 'c_int16', 'c_int32', 'c_int64', 'c_int8', 'c_long', 'c_longdouble', 'c_longlong', 'c_short', 'c_size_t', 'c_ssize_t', 'c_ubyte', 'c_uint', 'c_uint16', 'c_uint32', 'c_uint64', 'c_uint8', 'c_ulong', 'c_ulonglong', 'c_ushort', 'c_void_p', 'c_voidp', 'c_wchar', 'c_wchar_p', 'cast', 'cdll', 'create_string_buffer', 'create_unicode_buffer', 'ctypes', 'find_library', 'get_errno', 'magic_set', 'magic_t', 'memmove', 'memset', 'open', 'pointer', 'py_object', 'pydll', 'pythonapi', 'resize', 'set_errno', 'sizeof', 'string_at', 'wstring_at']