Feature Requests item #1043134, was opened at 2004-10-08 08:44 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by josiahcarlson You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1043134&group_id=5470
Category: Python Library Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Robert Kiendl (kxroberto) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: mimetypes.guess_extension('text/plain') == '.ksh' ??? Initial Comment: Instead of returning the first in the list of extensions it should return the most reasonable . here: to have a *.txt on disk after saveing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson) Date: 2004-12-18 16:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=341410 While I agree with the original poster that returning '.txt' is preferable to the others in the list returned by mimetypes.guess_all_extensions() at least 9 times out of 10, being able to prioritize all of the types is not necessarily the easiest thing to do for all of the possible returned lists. Is using a custom comparison function along with the list returned by guess_all_extensions() sufficient? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers) Date: 2004-10-11 13:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=469548 common_types is for adding some non-standard types, not for determining which extension is most reasonable. I'll be happy to look at a decent patch, but I'm moving this to feature request until then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Robert Kiendl (kxroberto) Date: 2004-10-10 01:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=972995 in mimetypes.py there is already a common_types = { '.jpg' : 'image/jpg', ... .txt could be added, mayby guess_extension should first reverse-take it out of there, not random ...? background: my intent was to save MIME attachment as (startable) temporary file. yet got wonderful .ksh's for textfiles, and had to fumble ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers) Date: 2004-10-09 08:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=469548 How would you suggest finding out what the most reasonable extension for a mime type is? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1043134&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com