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Subject: Re: Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:28:01 +0000
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On 07/02/2014 19:17, Asaf Las wrote:
> btw, had seen this after own post -
> example usage includes mimetypes.init()
> before call to module functions.
>

 From http://docs.python.org/3/library/mimetypes.html#module-mimetypes 
third paragraph "The functions described below provide the primary 
interface for this module. If the module has not been initialized, they 
will call init() if they rely on the information init() sets up."  Draw 
your own conclusions :)

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
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Mark Lawrence

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