Message 91196 - Python tracker

➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author	jrus
Recipients	jrus
Date	2009-08-02.19:19:21
SpamBayes Score	2.2564178e-05
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1249240763.95.0.402656374782.issue6626@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to

Content
See discussion started right at the end of the month at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090928.html And continued at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/thread.html Basically, the mimetypes module is fragile and very confusing code, built up over years of feature creep without refactoring or careful overall design. I'd like to cut it down to a more manageable code size, fix some bugs, update the included list of mime types, and use some nice Python features of versions 2.2+. Ideally someone reading the module once through would be able to understand what it does. Patches to be attached shortly.

See discussion started right at the end of the month at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090928.html

And continued at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/thread.html

Basically, the mimetypes module is fragile and very confusing code, 
built up over years of feature creep without refactoring or careful 
overall design. I'd like to cut it down to a more manageable code size, 
fix some bugs, update the included list of mime types, and use some nice 
Python features of versions 2.2+. Ideally someone reading the module 
once through would be able to understand what it does.

Patches to be attached shortly.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2009-08-02 19:19:24	jrus	set	recipients: + jrus
2009-08-02 19:19:23	jrus	set	messageid: <1249240763.95.0.402656374782.issue6626@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-08-02 19:19:22	jrus	link	issue6626 messages
2009-08-02 19:19:22	jrus	create