[Python-Dev] standard library mimetypes module pathologically broken? (original) (raw)

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Sat Aug 1 00:01:10 CEST 2009

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:16:02PM +0000, Jacob Rus wrote:

* The operation is crazy: It defines a MimeTypes class which actually stores the type mappings, but this class is designed to be a singleton. The way that such a design is enforced is through the use of the module-global 'init' function, which makes an instance of the class, and then maps all of the functions in the module global namespace to instance methods. But confusingly, all such functions are also defined independently of the init function, with definitions such as: def guesstype(url, strict=True): if not inited: init() return guesstype(url, strict)

I can't speak for any of your other complaints, but I know that this weird init stuff is fixed in trunk.

For the other stuff, you seem to have some very good points. I'm sure a patch would be welcome.

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