Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: Zope Public License
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
- Python :: Implementation :: CPython
- Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Operating System
- OS Independent
Topic
- Internet :: WWW/HTTP
- Software Development
zope.contenttype
A utility module for content-type (MIME type) handling.
Functions include:
Guessing a content type given a name and (optional) body data.
Guessing a content type given some text.
Parsing MIME types.
Documentation is hosted at https://zopecontenttype.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Change History
6.0 (2025-09-12)
Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.
5.2 (2025-02-14)
Add support for Python 3.12, 3.13.
Drop support for Python 3.7, 3.8.
Call mimetypes.guess_type with parameter strict=False. This recognizes a few more content types related to midi, pict, xul and rtf; for details, see #14.
5.1 (2023-09-21)
Add some more MIME types and extensions.
5.0 (2023-03-27)
Add support for Python 3.11.
Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6.
Drop support for deprecated python setup.py test.
4.6 (2022-09-07)
Add support for Python 3.9, 3.10.
Drop support for Python 3.4.
4.5.0 (2019-12-19)
Fix tests on Python 3.8 (#7).
Add support for Python 3.8.
4.4 (2018-10-05)
Add support for Python 3.7.
4.3.0 (2017-08-10)
Add support for Python 3.6.
Drop support for Python 3.3.
Host documentation at https://zopecontenttype.readthedocs.io
4.2.0 (2016-08-26)
Add support for Python 3.5.
Drop support for Python 2.6.
4.1.0 (2014-12-26)
Add support for Python 3.4 and PyPy3.
Add support for testing on Travis.
4.0.1 (2013-02-20)
Change the file contents argument of guess_content_type from string to bytes. This change has no effect on Python 2.
4.0.0 (2013-02-11)
Add some tests for better coverage.
Add tox.ini and manifest.
Add support for Python 3.3 and PyPy.
Drop support for Python 2.4 and 2.5.
3.5.5 (2011-07-27)
Properly restore the HTML snippet detection, by looking at the entire string and not just its start.
3.5.4 (2011-07-26)
Restore detection of HTML snippets from 3.4 series.
3.5.3 (2011-03-18)
Add new mime types for web fonts, cache manifest and new media formats.
3.5.2 (2011-02-11)
LP #717289: add video/x-m4v mimetype for the .m4v extension.
3.5.1 (2010-03-23)
LP #242321: fix IndexError raised when testing strings consisting solely of leading whitespace.
3.5.0 (2009-10-22)
Move the implementation of zope.publisher.contenttype to zope.contenttype.parse, moved tests along.
3.4.3 (2009-12-28)
Update mime-type for .js to be application/javascript.
3.4.2 (2009-05-28)
3.4.1 (2009-02-04)
Improve text_type(). Based on the patch from http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/2355/
Add missing setuptools dependency to setup.py.
Add reference documentation.
3.4.0 (2007-09-13)
First stable release as an independent package.
