Felipe Rodrigues <[email protected]> added the comment:
@_savage, on the commit @xtreak referred, there's a note that "image/jpg" and
some other non-standard mimetypes are only supported if `strict=False`[1]
So, this:
>>> mimetypes.guess_extension("image/jpg")
Gives no return. But this works:
>>> mimetypes.guess_extension("image/jpg", strict=False)
'.jpg'
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I guess we could improve the current documentation [2]. It currently specifies
correctly the `strict` behavior:
> The optional strict argument is a flag specifying whether the list of known
> MIME types is limited to
> only the official types registered with IANA. When strict is True (the
> default), only the IANA types
> are supported; when strict is False, some additional non-standard but
> commonly used MIME types are
> also recognized.
But I think it would be nice to have a table specifying what are those
"non-standard but commonly used MIME types". Personally, I'd have a hard time
guessing on a regular day of my life which of 'image/jpeg' and 'image/jpg' is
standard or not. We could even add a nice note pointing out that the
`common_types` property [3] is a list of those supported non-standard type .
Given the fact that the `strict` flag is used by different methods with the
same behavior, maybe we could add a note on the top of the doc explaining the
general meaning of that flag.
[1]:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2a99fd911ebeecedbb250a05667cd46eca4735b9#diff-fc65388a9cdf41980b2c31de5de67758R547
[2]: https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/mimetypes.html#mimetypes.guess_type
[3]: https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/mimetypes.html#mimetypes.common_types
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