QMimeType¶

PyQt5.QtCore.QMimeType

Description¶

The QMimeType class describes types of file or data, represented by a MIME type string.

For instance a file named “readme.txt” has the MIME type “text/plain”. The MIME type can be determined from the file name, or from the file contents, or from both. MIME type determination can also be done on buffers of data not coming from files.

Determining the MIME type of a file can be useful to make sure your application supports it. It is also useful in file-manager-like applications or widgets, in order to display an appropriate iconName() for the file, or even the descriptive comment() in detailed views.

To check if a file has the expected MIME type, you should use inherits() rather than a simple string comparison based on the name(). This is because MIME types can inherit from each other: for instance a C source file is a specific type of plain text file, so text/x-csrc inherits text/plain.

Methods¶

__init__(): TODO

__init__(QMimeType): TODO

aliases() → List[str]: TODO

allAncestors() → List[str]: TODO

comment() → str: TODO

__eq__(QMimeType) → bool: TODO

filterString() → str: TODO

genericIconName() → str: TODO

globPatterns() → List[str]: TODO

__hash__() → int: TODO

iconName() → str: TODO

inherits(str) → bool: TODO

isDefault() → bool: TODO

isValid() → bool: TODO

name() → str: TODO

__ne__(QMimeType) → bool: TODO

parentMimeTypes() → List[str]: TODO

preferredSuffix() → str: TODO

suffixes() → List[str]: TODO

swap(QMimeType): TODO