Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output

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Date	2014-02-08 02:59 -0800
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Subject	Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output
From	Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com>

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On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:39:06 AM UTC+2, Peter Otten wrote:
> Asaf Las wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 8, 2014 9:51:48 AM UTC+2, Peter Otten wrote:
> >> At least the mimetypes already defined in the module could easily produce
> >> the same guessed extension consistently.
> > imho one workaround for OP could be to supply own map file in init() thus
> > ensure unambiguous mapping across every platform and distribution. guess
> > some libraries already doing that. or write wrapper and process
> > all_guesses to eliminate ambiguity up to needed requirement.
> > that is in case if bug request will be rejected.
> 
> You also have to set mimetypes.types_map and mimetypes.common_types to an 
> empty dict (or an OrderedDict).

Hmmm, yes. then the quickest workaround is to get all guesses list then
sort it and use the one at index 0.

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Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-02-07 19:06 +0100
  Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 11:09 -0800
    Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 11:17 -0800
      Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-07 19:28 +0000
    Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-02-07 20:39 +0100
    Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-07 20:40 +0100
      Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 12:25 -0800
        Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-08 08:51 +0100
          Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 00:24 -0800
            Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-08 09:39 +0100
              Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 02:59 -0800

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