Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: I think it's important to stick to established standards for MIME types and to make sure that Python returns the same values on all platforms using the default settings.
Apache comes with a mime.types file which includes both the official IANA types and many common, but unregistered types: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types?view=markup This can be used as reference (much like we use the X.org locale database as reference for the locale module). If an application wants to use the Windows registry settings instead, that's fine, but it should not be the default if there's a difference in output compared to the hard-coded list in mimetypes. Note that this would probably require a redesign of the internals of the mimetypes module. It currently provides only a small subset as default mapping and then reads the full set from one of the mime.types files it can find on the system. Such a redesign would only be possible for Python 3.4, not Python 2.7. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15207> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
