[issue10551] mimetypes read from the registry should not overwrite standard mime mappings

[Kovid Goyal]

Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net> added the comment:

I actually had in mind people that (like me) develop primarily on unix and assume that mimetypes works the same way on both windows and unix. Of course, the changed behavior is also a concern.

At the very least, I would encourage the addition of a warning to the documentation of the mimetypes module.

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status: pending -> open

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