Missing files for `magic` library on Windows

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.
Now when i execute magic methods, i get missing file exception:

import magic
print(magic.Magic())

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Admin/PycharmProjects/lex/lex.py", line 367, in <module>
  test_magic()
File "C:/Users/Admin/PycharmProjects/lex/lex.py", line 364, in test_magic
  print(magic.Magic())
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespython_magic-0.4.3-py2.7.eggmagic.py", line 52, in __init__
  magic_load(self.cookie, magic_file)
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespython_magic-0.4.3-py2.7.eggmagic.py", line 188, in magic_load
  return _magic_load(cookie, coerce_filename(filename))
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespython_magic-0.4.3-py2.7.eggmagic.py", line 139, in errorcheck
  raise MagicException(err)
magic.MagicException: could not find any magic files!

DLLs are in the PATH, i tried debugging and magic1.dll is located correctly, but somewhere inside library throws an exception.
Inside the gnuwin32 package i’ve found magic and magic.mgc. I placed them to the same folder, and got WindowsError: [Error 126] on

libmagic = None  
# Let's try to find magic or magic1  
dll = ctypes.util.find_library('magic') or ctypes.util.find_library('magic1')  

# This is necessary because find_library returns None if it doesn't find the library
if dll:
    libmagic = ctypes.CDLL(dll)

This obviously happens because python tries to open magic file as dll, which is plain text. After adding .dll to filenames in the code i get the same magic.MagicException: could not find any magic files!.
What files am i missing?

UPDATE:

C:UsersAdmin>file C:123.zip -m magic
file: could not find any magic files!

C:UsersAdmin>file C:123.zip -m "C:@DEV@LIB@MagicGetGnuWin32binmagic"
C:123.zip; ASCII text, with no line terminators

C:UsersAdmin>cd C:@DEV@LIB@MagicGetGnuWin32bin

C:@DEV@LIB@MagicGetGnuWin32bin>file C:123.zip -m magic
C:123.zip; ASCII text, with no line terminators

UPDATE 2 (SOLVED):

print(magic.Magic())
magic.MagicException: could not find any magic files!

print(magic.Magic(magic_file = 'magic'))
<magic.Magic instance at 0x02A5E198>

just had to specify file explicitly

Answer

Path to magic file has to be explicitly passed to the constructor.

magic_object = magic.Magic(magic_file = 'path_to_magic_files/magic'))

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