Status of tests on Windows

[Dominik Ruf]

> Yes, it relies on stdlib's mimetypes.guess_type(). On Windows it gives
> "text/plain" for .py.
> 
> My understanding is that this "text/plain" comes from Windows
> registry. This can be overridden
> by early call to mimetypes.init([]). Then we have "text/x-python" on
> Windows as well.
> It's hard for me to tell, though, whether it will fix or break things...
> 
Well, I think we could easily fix the test by calling .init and would not 
break anything.
But that would only fix the problem for .py files.
The question then is what types do we want to support here?
Do we want to maintain your own list of types?


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