What is a magic number? Why do many programmers advise that they be avoided?

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10 I need to get mime type for some files on windows, so i've installed python-magic (on 32-bit python 2.7.3). It depends on unix magic library. Author instructs to get regex2.dll, zlib1.dll and …

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Using these magic methods (__enter__, __exit__) allows you to implement objects which can be used easily with the with statement. The idea is that it makes it easy to build code which needs …

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The magic number comes from UNIX-type systems where the first few bytes of a file held a marker indicating the file type. Python puts a similar marker into its pyc files when it creates them.

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The unix file command uses a "magic" file database to determine which type of data a file contains, independently of the file's name or extension. I need to craft my custom magic …

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