Method compile

magic/compat.py:191–200

Compile entries in the colon separated list of database files passed as argument or the default database file if no argument. The compiled files created are named from the basename(1) of each file argument with ".mgc" appended to it. Returns 0 on success and

(self, dbs)

        return _load(self._magic_t, Magic.__tobytes(filename))

    def compile(self, dbs):
        """
        Compile entries in the colon separated list of database files
        passed as argument or the default database file if no argument.
        The compiled files created are named from the basename(1) of each file
        argument with ".mgc" appended to it.

        Returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.
        """
        return _compile(self._magic_t, Magic.__tobytes(dbs))

    def check(self, dbs):
        """