Asaf Las wrote: > On Saturday, February 8, 2014 9:51:48 AM UTC+2, Peter Otten wrote: >> >> At least the mimetypes already defined in the module could easily produce >> the same guessed extension consistently. > > imho one workaround for OP could be to supply own map file in init() thus > ensure unambiguous mapping across every platform and distribution. guess > some libraries already doing that. or write wrapper and process > all_guesses to eliminate ambiguity up to needed requirement. > that is in case if bug request will be rejected.
You also have to set mimetypes.types_map and mimetypes.common_types to an empty dict (or an OrderedDict). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list