Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> added the comment:

The changes introduced by this ticket in 
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9fc720e5e4f772598013ea48a3f0d22b2b6b04fa#r45794801
 are problematic.

I discovered this from having tests failing when testing on Python 3.7 and up

The bug is that calling mimetypes.init(files) will NOT use my files, but 
instead use both my files and knownfiles.
This was not the case before as knownfiles would be ignored as expected when I 
provide my of files list.

This is a breaking API change IMHO and  introduces a buggy unstability : even 
if I want to ignore knownfiles by providing my list of of files, knownfiles 
will always be added and this results in erratic and buggy behaviour as the 
content of "knownfiles" is completely random based on the OS version and else. 

The code I am using is here 
https://github.com/nexB/typecode/blob/ba07c04d23441d3469dc5de911376d408514ebd8/src/typecode/contenttype.py#L308

I think we should reopen to fix (or create a new ticket)

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nosy: +pombredanne

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