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

Robert Lehmann stargaming at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 13:14:05 CEST 2009

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:37:18 -0700, Jacob Rus wrote:

Here is a somewhat more substantively changed version. This one does away with the 'inited' flag and the 'init' function, which might be impossible given that their documented (though I would be extremely surprised if anyone calls them in third-party code) [snip]

There seem to be quite a bunch of high-profile third-party modules relying on this interface, eg. Zope, Plone, TurboGears, and CherryPy. See http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=mimetypes.init+lang%3Apython for a more thorough listing.

Given that most of them aren't ported to Python 3 yet, I guess, changing the semantics in 3.x seems not-too-bad to me.

HTH,

-- Robert "Stargaming" Lehmann

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