Re: [Python-Dev] standard library mimetypes module pathologically broken?

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 at 15:17, Brett Cannon wrote:
> >  * It creates a _default_mime_types() function which declares a
> >    bunch of global variables, and then immediately calls
> >    _default_mime_types() below the definition. There is literally
> >    no difference in result between this and just putting those
> >    variables at the top level of the file, so I have no idea why
> >    this function exists, except to make the code more confusing.
>
> It could potentially be used for testing, but that's a guess.

regrtest calls it from dash_R_cleanup as part of "clear[ing]
assorted module caches".

--David
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