Replace 'magic' with builtin 'mimetypes'

Use the builtin mimetypes which gives better results

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qc.py b/scripts/qc.py
index de01bb7..2057cd6 100644
--- a/scripts/qc.py
+++ b/scripts/qc.py
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import argparse
+import mimetypes
 from typing import Union, Callable
 
-import magic
-
 from quality_control.utils import make_progress_calculator
 from quality_control.errors import InvalidValue, DuplicateHeading
 from quality_control.parsing import (
@@ -15,9 +14,10 @@ from quality_control.parsing import (
     collect_errors)
 
 
-def is_file_mime(filepath, mimetype):
+def is_file_mime(filepath:str, mimetype:str) -> bool:
     """Check that `filepath` has a mimetype of `mimetype` or `text/plain`"""
-    return magic.from_file(filepath, mime=True) in ("text/plain", mimetype)
+    the_type = mimetypes.guess_type(filepath)[0]
+    return the_type in ("text/plain", mimetype)
 
 def cli_argument_parser():
     """Create the parser for the CLI arguments"""