Possible bug with stability of mimetypes.guess_* function output

[Asaf Las]

On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:39:06 AM UTC+2, Peter Otten wrote:
> Asaf Las wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 8, 2014 9:51:48 AM UTC+2, Peter Otten wrote:
> >> At least the mimetypes already defined in the module could easily produce
> >> the same guessed extension consistently.
> > imho one workaround for OP could be to supply own map file in init() thus
> > ensure unambiguous mapping across every platform and distribution. guess
> > some libraries already doing that. or write wrapper and process
> > all_guesses to eliminate ambiguity up to needed requirement.
> > that is in case if bug request will be rejected.
> 
> You also have to set mimetypes.types_map and mimetypes.common_types to an 
> empty dict (or an OrderedDict).

Hmmm, yes. then the quickest workaround is to get all guesses list then
sort it and use the one at index 0.