https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b388c61be4b88a4be08fe4de737966e9a8d89ac9 commit: b388c61be4b88a4be08fe4de737966e9a8d89ac9 branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2026-08-30T07:13:08Z summary:
[3.14] gh-115075: Fix info about initialization of mimetypes.MimeTypes attributes (GH-150691) (GH-156626) They are no longer depended on the current value of global variables since Python 3.9 (see gh-49213). (cherry picked from commit 19363f20b6e014fd44c76f8a998b21845716e358) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/mimetypes.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/mimetypes.rst b/Doc/library/mimetypes.rst index 647f9d05c4db23..aaf5aa96b4fb08 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mimetypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mimetypes.rst @@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ than one MIME-type database; it provides an interface similar to the one of the .. class:: MimeTypes(filenames=(), strict=True) This class represents a MIME-types database. By default, it provides access to - the same database as the rest of this module. The initial database is a copy of - that provided by the module, and may be extended by loading additional + the same database as the rest of this module. The initial database is created from + Python's built-in MIME type tables. It may be extended by loading additional :file:`mime.types`\ -style files into the database using the :meth:`read` or :meth:`readfp` methods. The mapping dictionaries may also be cleared before loading additional data if the default data is not desired. @@ -218,30 +218,32 @@ than one MIME-type database; it provides an interface similar to the one of the Dictionary mapping suffixes to suffixes. This is used to allow recognition of encoded files for which the encoding and the type are indicated by the same extension. For example, the :file:`.tgz` extension is mapped to :file:`.tar.gz` - to allow the encoding and type to be recognized separately. This is initially a - copy of the global :data:`suffix_map` defined in the module. + to allow the encoding and type to be recognized separately. + This is initialized with some predefined values. .. attribute:: MimeTypes.encodings_map - Dictionary mapping filename extensions to encoding types. This is initially a - copy of the global :data:`encodings_map` defined in the module. + Dictionary mapping filename extensions to encoding types. + This is initialized with some predefined values. .. attribute:: MimeTypes.types_map Tuple containing two dictionaries, mapping filename extensions to MIME types: the first dictionary is for the non-standards types and the second one is for - the standard types. They are initialized by :data:`common_types` and - :data:`types_map`. + the standard types. + They are initialized with some predefined values and MIME type + information loaded from files specified by the *filenames* argument. .. attribute:: MimeTypes.types_map_inv Tuple containing two dictionaries, mapping MIME types to a list of filename extensions: the first dictionary is for the non-standards types and the - second one is for the standard types. They are initialized by - :data:`common_types` and :data:`types_map`. + second one is for the standard types. + They are initialized with some predefined values and MIME type + information loaded from files specified by the *filenames* argument. .. method:: MimeTypes.guess_extension(type, strict=True) _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
