[New-bugs-announce] [issue38449] regression - mimetypes guess_type is confused by ; in the filename

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

New submission from Yaroslav Halchenko <yarikoptic at gmail.com>:

Our tests in DataLad started to fail while building on Debian with Python 3.7.5rc1 whenever they passed just fine previously with 3.7.3rc1. Analysis boiled down to mimetypes

    $> ./python3.9 -c 'import mimetypes; mimedb = mimetypes.MimeTypes(strict=False); print(mimedb.guess_type(";1.tar.gz"))'                           
    (None, None)
    
    $> ./python3.9 -c 'import mimetypes; mimedb = mimetypes.MimeTypes(strict=False); print(mimedb.guess_type("1.tar.gz"))' 
    ('application/x-tar', 'gzip')
    
    $> git describe
    v3.8.0b1-1174-g2b7dc40b2af


Ref: 

- original issue in DataLad: https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/3769

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 354455
nosy: Yaroslav.Halchenko
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: regression - mimetypes guess_type is confused by ; in the filename
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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