[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-474583 ] non-standard types in mimetypes.py
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Bugs item #474583, was opened at 2001-10-24 11:57
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: non-standard types in mimetypes.py
Initial Comment:
In the spirit of "be liberal in what you accept", I
think mimetypes should have an option which searches
non-standard but common types. E.g. I just received an
email message which had a content type of image/jpg and
I wanted to store that in a file with the proper
extension. But mimetypes couldn't give that to me
because image/jpeg is the official type.
Attached is a patch to add an optional "strict" flag to
guess_type() and guess_extension(). strict defaults to
1 to keep the current behavior. Set it to 0 and some
additional types are searched. I added back the
non-standard types that Martin removed in revision 1.19
of the file.
This patch also contains a small improvement to the
command line options when this is run as a script. I
can split the patch into two parts if necessary, but I
don't think it is.
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