[issue44159] mimetypes - "strict" on Windows

[Norman Lorrain]

Norman Lorrain <normanlorrain at gmail.com> added the comment:

Possible solution is to read the Windows Registry entries, assigning those entries as "strict=False".  Unit tests pass with this change:

diff --git a/Lib/mimetypes.py b/Lib/mimetypes.py
index 018793c4f0..dd2bddf064 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetypes.py
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ def init(files=None):
     if files is None or _db is None:
         db = MimeTypes()
         if _winreg:
-            db.read_windows_registry()
+            db.read_windows_registry(strict = False)
 
         if files is None:
             files = knownfiles

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