[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

If image/bmp is now[*] the official IANA type, mimetypes should use that.  However, because this is a change with possible backward compatibility issues, it should probably only go into 3.7, but I'm open to arguments about that.

[*] The mimetypes module is very old and nobody specifically maintains it; we depend on user reports for updates to it, and obviously this one was overlooked.  Care to prepare a PR?

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