[issue5853] mimetypes.guess_type() hits recursion limit

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

The plan is to replace init() with something like:

_db = None

def init():
    global _db
    db = ...   
    # initialize database
    # set it to global only when it's fully ready
    _db = db

and guess_type() with:

def guess_type():
    if _db is None:
       init()
    return _db.guess_type()

(same for other functions)

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