Detects file type by sniffing magic bytes and MIME content via Python CLI.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Detect whether a file is natural language (compressible) or code/config (skip)."""
import json
import re
from pathlib import Path
# Extensions that are natural language and compressible
COMPRESSIBLE_EXTENSIONS = {".md", ".txt", ".markdown", ".rst", ".typ", ".typst", ".tex"}
# Extensions that are code/config and should be skipped
SKIP_EXTENSIONS = {
".py", ".js", ".ts", ".tsx", ".jsx", ".json", ".yaml", ".yml",
".toml", ".env", ".lock", ".css", ".scss", ".html", ".xml",
".sql", ".sh", ".bash", ".zsh", ".go", ".rs", ".java", ".c",
".cpp", ".h", ".hpp", ".rb", ".php", ".swift", ".kt", ".lua",
".dockerfile", ".makefile", ".csv", ".ini", ".cfg",
}
# Well-known build/config files that carry no (or a misleading) extension โ
# `Dockerfile` has no s
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