ImportError: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation

[CarlGalloy]

Hi.
In dependency section mention that "magic1.dll, regex2.dll, and zlib1.dll onto your PATH from the Binaries " where exactly PATH is? ( System Environment PATH? )

[ahupp]

Yes, your %PATH% environment variable.

[CarlGalloy]

Now i have this Error:

``

import magic
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\magic.py", line 154, in
libmagic = ctypes.CDLL(dll)
File "C:\Python27\lib\ctypes_init_.py", line 353, in init
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found
``

I install python-magic using pip install magic-python and i can see files on pythonsite-packages installation directory.

What's wrong?
and a question: : we must pass location of magic file (from [binary-zip]\share\misc ) to Magic(magic_file=...) ? Like this below code?

f = magic.Magic(mime=True, uncompress=True,magic_file="./mymagicfile/magic")

[ahupp]

No, the magic_file argument won't help here. It's failing to load the libmagic dll for some reason. I generally like to use the "Process Monitor" utility from sysinternals to figure out where it's trying to load DLLs from. Either it's looking in the wrong place, or there's a missing dependency of those dlls.

[Ayla93]

Is the problem solved?

[ahupp]

@Ayla93: to be clear, this is a local install issue rather than a bug in the library. Are you seeing the same issue as @CarlGalloy ?

[theirfanirfi]

Where is the magic1.DLL and regex located in windows 10. I'm having the same import error.
Please help me out.

[ahupp]

Those are 3rd party libraries you'll have to install. The README file includes some pointers to them, and I've updated it with more info.

[ysinjab]

For me i faced this issue when I import magic library in my django application. I solved it by " brew install libmagic" installing libmagic on the system level

[ashishnitinpatil]

I had this issue with official python docker (python:3.7-slim-buster), so I fixed it with apt-get install libmagic-dev.

[jppg]

I solve this problem with "pip install python-magic-bin"

[ye]

Yep, @ashishnitinpatil your comment was very helpful. The official python docker images is missing the (libmagic-dev for Debian based distro, headers, aka dynamic libraries files etc.), so we need to install libmagic-dev to make it work during the runtime (magic checks the dynamic libs). Alternatively, include the python-magic-bin version which includes those required files.