Expose magic_version as magic.version(), which returns an integer representing the version number.

re: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/issues/204

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/magic.py b/magic.py
index 699e461..7447b4c 100644
--- a/magic.py
+++ b/magic.py
@@ -322,6 +322,12 @@ def magic_getparam(cookie, param):
     _magic_getparam(cookie, param, byref(val))
     return val.value
 
+magic_version = libmagic.magic_version
+magic_version.restype = c_int
+magic_version.argtypes = []
+
+def version():
+    return magic_version()
 
 MAGIC_NONE = 0x000000 # No flags
 MAGIC_DEBUG = 0x000001 # Turn on debugging
diff --git a/test/test.py b/test/test.py
index c6ba522..d067b15 100755
--- a/test/test.py
+++ b/test/test.py
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ import sys
 class MagicTest(unittest.TestCase):
     TESTDATA_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'testdata')
 
+    def test_version(self):
+        self.assertTrue(magic.version() > 0)
+
     def test_fs_encoding(self):
         self.assertEqual('utf-8', sys.getfilesystemencoding().lower())