bpo-43542: Add heif/heic formats in mimetypes (GH-24917)

* bpo-43542: Add heif/heic formats in mimetypes

Add HEIF and HEIC format to list of media types. It has IANA registration.

IANA: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/heic
HEIF Github: https://github.com/nokiatech/heif

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>

diff --git a/Lib/mimetypes.py b/Lib/mimetypes.py
index d2c8ac76dcc0850a3a9e1b3497688235e4ebc82e..018793c4f01e46adfc970b290250d426645b0f51 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetypes.py
@@ -505,6 +505,8 @@ def _default_mime_types():
         '.jpg'    : 'image/jpeg',
         '.jpe'    : 'image/jpeg',
         '.jpeg'   : 'image/jpeg',
+        '.heic'   : 'image/heic',
+        '.heif'   : 'image/heif',
         '.png'    : 'image/png',
         '.svg'    : 'image/svg+xml',
         '.tiff'   : 'image/tiff',

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-20-15-43-25.bpo-43542.6bt2F6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-20-15-43-25.bpo-43542.6bt2F6.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..370e520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-20-15-43-25.bpo-43542.6bt2F6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+``image/heic`` and ``image/heif`` were added to :mod:`mimetypes`.