[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-474583 ] non-standard types in mimetypes.py (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #474583, was opened at 2001-10-24 11:57 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=474583&group_id=5470

Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.2 Status: Open

Resolution: Accepted Priority: 5 Submitted By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Assigned to: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: non-standard types in mimetypes.py

Initial Comment: In the spirit of "be liberal in what you accept", I think mimetypes should have an option which searches non-standard but common types. E.g. I just received an email message which had a content type of image/jpg and I wanted to store that in a file with the proper extension. But mimetypes couldn't give that to me because image/jpeg is the official type.

Attached is a patch to add an optional "strict" flag to guess_type() and guess_extension(). strict defaults to 1 to keep the current behavior. Set it to 0 and some additional types are searched. I added back the non-standard types that Martin removed in revision 1.19 of the file.

This patch also contains a small improvement to the command line options when this is run as a script. I can split the patch into two parts if necessary, but I don't think it is.

Comment By: Martin v. L�wis (loewis) Date: 2001-10-25 01:46

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Sounds good to me, assuming it is also accompanied by a documentation change. You may also consider adding the types I rejected from #438790, in particular image/pict, text/xsl and text/xul (not sure whether any others were rejected).

Back to Barry for checkin.

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