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18 changes: 10 additions & 8 deletions Doc/library/mimetypes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -223,30 +223,32 @@ than one MIME-type database; it provides an interface similar to the one of the
Dictionary mapping suffixes to suffixes. This is used to allow recognition of
encoded files for which the encoding and the type are indicated by the same
extension. For example, the :file:`.tgz` extension is mapped to :file:`.tar.gz`
to allow the encoding and type to be recognized separately. This is initially a
copy of the global :data:`suffix_map` defined in the module.
to allow the encoding and type to be recognized separately.
This is initialized with some predefined values.


.. attribute:: MimeTypes.encodings_map

Dictionary mapping filename extensions to encoding types. This is initially a
copy of the global :data:`encodings_map` defined in the module.
Dictionary mapping filename extensions to encoding types.
This is initialized with some predefined values.


.. attribute:: MimeTypes.types_map

Tuple containing two dictionaries, mapping filename extensions to MIME types:
the first dictionary is for the non-standards types and the second one is for
the standard types. They are initialized by :data:`common_types` and
:data:`types_map`.
the standard types.
They are initialized with some predefined values and MIME type
information loaded from files specified by the *filenames* argument.


.. attribute:: MimeTypes.types_map_inv

Tuple containing two dictionaries, mapping MIME types to a list of filename
extensions: the first dictionary is for the non-standards types and the
second one is for the standard types. They are initialized by
:data:`common_types` and :data:`types_map`.
second one is for the standard types.
They are initialized with some predefined values and MIME type
information loaded from files specified by the *filenames* argument.


.. method:: MimeTypes.guess_extension(type, strict=True)
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