[Python-Dev] standard library mimetypes module pathologically broken?
R. David Murray
rdmurray at bitdance.com
Sat Aug 1 00:33:20 CEST 2009
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 at 15:17, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> * It creates a _default_mime_types() function which declares a
>> bunch of global variables, and then immediately calls
>> _default_mime_types() below the definition. There is literally
>> no difference in result between this and just putting those
>> variables at the top level of the file, so I have no idea why
>> this function exists, except to make the code more confusing.
>>
>
> It could potentially be used for testing, but that's a guess.
regrtest calls it from dash_R_cleanup as part of "clear[ing]
assorted module caches".
--David
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