[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-439710 ] User-defined mime.types file

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Bugs item #439710, was opened at 2001-07-09 06:35
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Category: Python Library
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andreas Jung (ajung)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: User-defined mime.types file

Initial Comment:
Zope users sometimes asks to add
additional mime.types entries to Zope. 
Zopes mime-types handling is mostly 
based on mimetypes.py. In such cases
users should be able to maintain their
own mime.types files. 

mimetypes.py currently tries to look
for mime.types files in 4 hardcoded locations.

It would be more convinient to specify
additional locations e.g. by an env. var
that holds a list of additional locations
or by any other mechanism that allows user-defined
locations. 

The hardcoded locations also don't work on
Windows.

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-07-27 07:28

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OK, I really should update the version here to be the fixed one; sorry about the broken versions!  If there are no objections, I'll check this in soon.

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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-07-23 19:51

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I've attached a new version of mimetypes.py; something like this should do the trick and be easy to extend as needed.

Comments welcome.

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Comment By: Andreas Jung (ajung)
Date: 2001-07-23 13:12

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A more OO approach would be nice. At least a possibility to add "somehow"
different file locations. I have not special preference for any solution. 

Andreas

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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-07-23 13:07

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Sounds like there should be an object which can be configured with a search path at construction time.  Applications could then store an appropriate mime.types file in a location that makes sense for them.

Would this suite your purposes?

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