Failure when importing python-magic in windows 10 python 3.9

[GiuseppeLeviBo]

Hi I have installed the library via pip and received no warning then when I try to import it libmagic is not found: PS G:\Pythontest> pip install python-magic Collecting python-magic Downloading python_magic-0.4.24-py2.py3-none-any.whl (12 kB) Installing collected packages: python-magic Successfully installed python-magic-0.4.24 PS G:\Pythontest> python Python 3.9.6 (tags/v3.9.6:db3ff76, Jun 28 2021, 15:26:21) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import magic Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\magic_init_.py", line 208, in libmagic = loader.load_lib() File "C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\magic\loader.py", line 49, in load_lib raise ImportError('failed to find libmagic. Check your installation') ImportError: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation

How to install the missing library and why pip has not installed it? (or at least failed to install ?)

[fxpaquette]

On Windows, you can obtain the dll by installing python-magic-bin (additionally to python-magic) with pip install python-magic-bin. Source: https://pypi.org/project/python-magic/

[av-gantimurov]

Same issue in Windows with installed python-magic-bin and python3. When I installed python-magic and python-magic-bin in virtualenv, it doesn't work too. Problem with loading libmagic library in loader.py. It tries to load libmagic.dll from current folder (./libmagic.dll) or tries find it in %PATH%. But binary libraries from python-magic-bin installed in magic/libmagic folder. Workarounds:

1. Copy libraries from site-packages/magic/libmagic to current folder and magic will find them.
2. Add site-packages/magic/libmagic to PATH.

Steps for reproduce issue in Windows:

1. Make new virtualenv
2. Install in virtualenv python-magic, python-magic-bin
3. Try import magic in python.

[eight04]

I can still reproduce this issue with Python 3.10.2 + python-magic 0.4.25 + python-magic-bin 0.4.14.

If you install python-magic-bin after python-magic then everything works. Because python-magic-bin overwrites magic/__init__.py and load DLL from libmagic folder.

If you install python-magic-bin before python-magic then it doesn't work.

If you only install python-magic-bin then it also works. However, you can't install python-magic-bin on linux.

Before this issue is fixed, I think you have to specify your dependencies as:

python-magic-bin; sys_platform == "win32" or sys_platform == "darwin"
python-magic; sys_platform != "win32" and sys_platform != "darwin"

[prchristie]

@eight04 this does not work as the init.py file is where the code of python-magic is located, so you lose all updates. Notably, from_buffer will no longer work as intended as the version exposed by python-magic-bin does not encode the buffer so everything is application/octet-stream. The only method at the moment to retain current functionality is to add the libraries to PATH. This information should really be exposed somewhere extremely obvious, python-magic-bin is recommended as the installation method for windows yet it does not work.

For now I will manually installing libmagic onto windows with https://github.com/pidydx/libmagicwin64 and removing python-magic-bin from my requirements

[k128]

Thanks @eight04! Uninstalling and installing python-magic first fixed my issue. Any objections to just adding a note to the readme on the correct installation order?

[ahupp]

Merging into https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/issues/293