.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

.. _mimetypes-adds:

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Addition to standard module ``mimetypes``
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:mod:`openxmllib` adds all known MIME types for Open XML documents to the
standard :mod:`mimetypes` module.

.. code-block:: pycon

   >>> import mimetypes
   >>> mimetypes.guess_type('some-doc.docx')
   (None, None)
   >>> import openxmllib
   >>> mimetypes.guess_type('some-doc.docx')
   ('application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document', None)

Read `the full list of MIME types and file mane extensions
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee309278(office.12).aspx>`_.