I see! Okay... I'll consider a solution to the filetype portion of the
mimetypes map. Do you happen to know which other modules may depend on that
structure?

Yes... the lightning is silly.

Dan Black
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:55 AM R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment:
>
> That link should do for our purposes here.
>
> The fact that it is an 'x-' mimetype means it has not been approved at
> any level.  There might be an in progress application to the mimetype
> registry, but if so the web site doesn't mention it anywhere obvious.
>
> I'm not sure about the filetype problem, but I'm guessing amp isn't the
> only mimetype that will have this issue going forward, so we probably need
> to come up with a solution.  You don't need support from the mimetypes
> module to create or manipulate emails using the content-type, though,
> so it isn't a blocker on that side.
>
> That lightning thing is *seriously* hokey :(
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