On my Centos server Python's mimetypes.guess_type("mobile.3gp") returns (None, None), instead of ('video/3gpp', None).
Where does Python get the list of mimetypes from, and is it possible to add a missing type to the list?
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On my system (Debian lenny) its in /usr/lib/python2.5/mimetypes.py
in the list knownfiles you can supply your own files for the init() function.
unbeknown
2008-12-08 09:45:31
Something I usually forget and that does not cause an error is passing just a simple string with a file path to init(). init() expects a list of file paths.
knabar
2010-05-04 18:34:06
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The mimetypes module uses mime.types files as they are common on Linux/Unix systems. If you look in mimetypes.knownfiles you will find a list of files that Python tries to access to load the data. You can also specify your own file to add new types by adding it to that list.
tante
2008-12-08 09:46:40