This documents how I installed Python bindings for libmagic.
There are actually different bindings for libmagic. One set is part of the
original distribution. It can be found in /usr/src/contrib/file/python/.
But in my opinion it is somewhat cumbersome to use and not very Pythonic.
The implementation from ahupp/python-magic in Github feels more natural.
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