gh-128703: Fix mimetypes.guess_type for empty Content-Type in registry (GH-128854)

(cherry picked from commit 303043f5062c1e7ffb7907abde61dbf13c98f8e9)

Co-authored-by: RUANG (James Roy) <longjinyii@outlook.com>

diff --git a/Lib/mimetypes.py b/Lib/mimetypes.py
index 8604000ed77a196af6da0d77c7e614588d2dad9e..2af7c4b7b80822238ec3a860b154a7255cedd6d1 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/mimetypes.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetypes.py
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ class MimeTypes:
         list of standard types, else to the list of non-standard
         types.
         """
+        if not type:
+            return
         self.types_map[strict][ext] = type
         exts = self.types_map_inv[strict].setdefault(type, [])
         if ext not in exts:

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-15-12-04-30.gh-issue-128703.6WPf38.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-15-12-04-30.gh-issue-128703.6WPf38.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..1e6af90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-15-12-04-30.gh-issue-128703.6WPf38.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix :func:`mimetypes.guess_type` to use default mapping for empty
+``Content-Type`` in registry.