Magic numbers are special value of certain variables which causes the program to behave in an special manner. For example, a communication library might take a Timeout parameter and it can define the magic number "-1" for indicating infinite timeout.
With Mock you can mock magic methods but you have to define them. MagicMock has "default implementations of most of the magic methods.". If you don't need to test any magic methods, Mock is adequate and doesn't bring a lot of extraneous things into your tests. If you need to test a lot of magic methods MagicMock will save you some time.
ImportError: failed to find libmagic. Check your installation I have magic1.dll (along with the two other files the docs specified) in C:\Windows\System32 so I am not sure what the issue is. I would appreciate any help or workarounds.
10 I need to get mime type for some files on windows, so i've installed python-magic (on 32-bit python 2.7.3). It depends on unix magic library. Author instructs to get regex2.dll, zlib1.dll and magic1.dll from gnuwin32 project. So i saved the files to a folder and added the folder to my system PATH.
