mediatype

Media Type (aka MIME Type) parsing and creation

Installation

pip install mediatype

Usage

>>> import mediatype

Parsing

>>> media_type = mediatype.parse('application/manifest+json')
>>>
>>> media_type
MediaType(
    type='application',
    subtype='manifest',
    suffix='json',
    parameters=None
)
>>>
>>> str(media_type)
'application/manifest+json'

Creation

>>> media_type = mediatype.MediaType(
    type='application',
    subtype='manifest',
    suffix='json',
    parameters=None
)
>>>
>>> str(media_type)
'application/manifest+json'

References

• IANA - Media Types
• RFC-6838 - Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
• Mozilla - MIME types (IANA media types)
• Wikipedia - Media type