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clin1234

opened on Mar 10, 2026

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Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

MIME types to be present in Lib/mimetypes.py and Lib/tests/mimetypes.py:

• ("application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable", ".exe" or ".dll"),
• ("application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed", ".cab"),
• ("application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp", ".chm"),
• ("application/vnd.ms-officetheme", ".thmx"),
• ("image/vnd.microsoft.icon", ".ico"),

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• gh-145717: Add a few Microsoft-specific MIME types, and synchronize between mimetypes module and tests #145718

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