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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 18:35:18 CEST 2009

2009/8/14 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

Georg Brandl wrote:

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

P.S. For anyone else that is slow like me, take a close look at PEP 387...

What should we see, other than that we have two PEPs on the same topic that should be merged? Benjamin wrote the second one, so he obviously knows there's a written deprecation policy in place, and hence his mini-rant probably wasn't meant to be taken literally - a point I completely missed on first reading.

IIRC, the point is probably the fact that PEP 387 has status "Draft" rather than "Accepted" - Benjamin proposed the PEP, met with a fair bit of discussion but no consensus, and everything fizzled out before a conclusion was reached.

I agree the two PEPs should probably be consolidated into one, but absent a volunteer for that task, leaving them as is doesn't really hurt anything.

Agreed, if both were accepted...

Paul.

PS I personally have no firm opinion on PEP 387. The idea seems good, but I don't feel qualified to say whether the proposed approach is sound.

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