[Python-ideas] Re: mimetypes.guess_type should not return deprecated mimetype application/x-javascript

2022-01-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 18Jan2022 13:21, Jelle Zijlstra wrote: >Perhaps there should be a guess_all_types() function in addition to >guess_type() that returns all possible types, so that the user can select >the type they want using any criterion. This would be nicely symmetrical >with the existing guess_extension

[Python-ideas] Re: mimetypes.guess_type should not return deprecated mimetype application/x-javascript

2022-01-18 Thread Jelle Zijlstra
Perhaps there should be a guess_all_types() function in addition to guess_type() that returns all possible types, so that the user can select the type they want using any criterion. This would be nicely symmetrical with the existing guess_extension and guess_all_extensions functions.

[Python-ideas] Re: mimetypes.guess_type should not return deprecated mimetype application/x-javascript

2022-01-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 18Jan2022 08:43, Paul Bryan wrote: >+1 > >"x-" prefix indicates ad hoc (unofficial), not deprecated. > >I agree, an official MIME type should be preferred over an unofficial >one.  Maybe, but I disagree about the proposed solution. There are circumstances where you want a specific MIME type

[Python-ideas] Re: mimetypes.guess_type should not return deprecated mimetype application/x-javascript

2022-01-18 Thread Paul Bryan
+1 "x-" prefix indicates ad hoc (unofficial), not deprecated. I agree, an official MIME type should be preferred over an unofficial one.  On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 16:26 +, mil...@gmail.com wrote: > mimetypes are parsed from the file /etc/mime.types > > cat /etc/mime.types | grep javascript >