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

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Asaf Las wrote:

> On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:40:06 PM UTC+2, Peter Otten wrote:

>> You never see ".shtml" as the guessed extension because it is not in the
>> original mimetypes.types_map dict, but instead programmaticaly read from
>> a file like /etc/mime.types and then added to a list of extensions.

> as there are bunch of files in mimetypes.py the only repeatability could
> be achieved on particular machine level.

At least the mimetypes already defined in the module could easily produce 
the same guessed extension consistently.

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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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