Method buffer

magic/compat.py:155–161

Returns a textual description of the contents of the argument passed as a buffer or None if an error occurred and the MAGIC_ERROR flag is set. A call to errno() will return the numeric error code.

(self, buf)

        return Magic.__tostr(_descriptor(self._magic_t, fd))

    def buffer(self, buf):
        """
        Returns a textual description of the contents of the argument passed
        as a buffer or None if an error occurred and the MAGIC_ERROR flag
        is set. A call to errno() will return the numeric error code.
        """
        return Magic.__tostr(_buffer(self._magic_t, buf, len(buf)))

    def error(self):
        """