How to use python-magic 5.19-1

I need to define MIME types from files without suffix in python3 and I was thinking of python-magic as a suitable solution for this. Unfortunately this does not work as described here: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/blob/master/README.md

What's happening:

>>> import magic
>>> magic.from_file("testdata/test.pdf")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'from_file'

      

        
        
        
      

    

So, I looked at the object that provides me the class Magic

for which I found the documentation here: http://filemagic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide.html

I was surprised that this didn't work either:

>>> with magic.Magic() as m:
...     pass
... 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'ms'
>>> m = magic.Magic()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'ms'
>>> 

      

        
        
        
      

    

I couldn't find any information on how to use the class Magic

anywhere, so I kept on trial and error until I figured out what it takes for instances LP_magic_set

only ms

. Some of them are returned by modular methods magic.magic_set()

and magic_t()

. So I tried building Magic

with any of them. When I call a method file()

from an instance, it always returns an empty result and the method errlvl()

tells me an error. 22. So how can I use magic anyway?