(type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/") ValueError: too many values to unpack

Real example of HEADERS:

{{{

!python

... 'DOCUMENT_URI': '/', 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, ; q=.2, /*; q=.2', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,defalte', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'ru,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3', ... }}}

{{{

!python

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/var/www/movister.ru/web_site/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 178, in get_response response = middleware_method(request, response)

File "/var/www/movister.ru/web_site/django_authopenid/middleware.py", line 44, in process_response request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT']) == 'application/xrds+xml':

File "/var/www/movister.ru/web_site/django_authopenid/utils/mimeparse.py", line 111, in best_match parsed_header = [parse_media_range(r) for r in header.split(",")]

File "/var/www/movister.ru/web_site/django_authopenid/utils/mimeparse.py", line 54, in parse_media_range (type, subtype, params) = parse_mime_type(range)

File "/var/www/movister.ru/web_site/django_authopenid/utils/mimeparse.py", line 38, in parse_mime_type (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/")

ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack }}}

{{{

!python

In [4]: from django_authopenid.utils.mimeparse import parse_mime_type In [5]: parse_mime_type("text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, ; q=.2, /*; q=.2")

---

ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/ram/workspace/movister/web_site/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/ram/workspace/movister/web_site/django_authopenid/utils/mimeparse.pyc in parse_mime_type(mime_type) 36 params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")])\ 37 for param in parts[1:] ]) ---> 38 (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/") 39 return (type.strip(), subtype.strip(), params) 40

ValueError: too many values to unpack }}}

@@ -32,9 +32,12 @@
 
        ('application', 'xhtml', {'q', '0.5'})
        """
-    parts = mime_type.split(";")
-    params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")])\
-            for param in parts[1:] ])
+
+    parts = []
+    for part in mime_type.split(";"):
+        parts += part.split(",") if part.count(",") else [part]
+    params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")]) \
+            for param in parts[1:] if param.count("=")])
     (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/")
     return (type.strip(), subtype.strip(), params)

Patch-solution

@@ -32,9 +32,12 @@
 
        ('application', 'xhtml', {'q', '0.5'})
        """
-    parts = mime_type.split(";")
-    params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")])\
-            for param in parts[1:] ])
+
+    parts = []
+    for part in mime_type.split(";"):
+        parts += part.split(",") if part.count(",") else [part]
+    params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")]) \
+            for param in parts[1:] if param.count("=")])
     (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/")
     return (type.strip(), subtype.strip(), params)

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 __email__ = "[e-mail]"
 __credits__ = ""
 
+import re
+
 def parse_mime_type(mime_type):
     """Carves up a mime_type and returns a tuple of the
        (type, subtype, params) where 'params' is a dictionary
@@ -32,10 +34,10 @@
 
        ('application', 'xhtml', {'q', '0.5'})
        """
-    parts = mime_type.split(";")
-    params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")])\
-            for param in parts[1:] ])
-    (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/")
+
+    parts = re.split(r'[,|;]', mime_type)
+    params = dict([tuple([s.strip() for s in param.split("=")]) for param in parts[1:] if param.count("=")])
+    (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/") if parts[0].count("/") else (parts[0], parts[0])
     return (type.strip(), subtype.strip(), params)
@@ -126,6 +128,7 @@
             self.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1'}), parse_media_range('application/xml ; q='))
             self.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1', 'b': 'other'}), parse_media_range('application/xml ; q=1;b=other'))
             self.assertEqual(('application', 'xml', {'q': '1', 'b': 'other'}), parse_media_range('application/xml ; q=2;b=other'))
+            self.assertEqual(('text', 'html', {'q': '.2'}), parse_media_range('text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2'))

The most recent code from @ramusus has fixed this for me - any chance of getting it pulled into the main distribution?

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