Message 293249 - Python tracker

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And the underlying problem causing this:

$ python -c 'import mimetypes;print(mimetypes.guess_all_extensions("image/jpeg"))'
['.jpeg', '.jpg', '.jpe']
$ python -c 'import mimetypes;print(mimetypes.guess_all_extensions("image/jpeg"))'
['.jpg', '.jpe', '.jpeg']
$ python -c 'import mimetypes;print(mimetypes.guess_all_extensions("image/jpeg"))'
['.jpg', '.jpeg', '.jpe']
$ python -c 'import mimetypes;print(mimetypes.guess_all_extensions("image/jpeg"))'
['.jpe', '.jpg', '.jpeg']
$ python -c 'import mimetypes;print(mimetypes.guess_all_extensions("image/jpeg"))'
['.jpeg', '.jpg', '.jpe']
$ 

If the module can't know which extension is preferred, perhaps guess_extension should just be deprecated and the results of guess_all_extensions sorted on return?

At least that would give us some determinism to work with.