[Python-Dev] standard library mimetypes module pathologically broken?

[Robert Lehmann]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:37:18 -0700, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Here is a somewhat more substantively changed version. This one does
> away with the 'inited' flag and the 'init' function, which might be
> impossible given that their documented (though I would be extremely
> surprised if anyone calls them in third-party code)
[snip]

There seem to be quite a bunch of high-profile third-party modules 
relying on this interface, eg. Zope, Plone, TurboGears, and CherryPy. See
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=mimetypes.init+lang%3Apython for a 
more thorough listing.

Given that most of them aren't ported to Python 3 yet, I guess, changing 
the semantics in 3.x seems not-too-bad to me.

HTH,

-- 
Robert "Stargaming" Lehmann