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 Library
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+- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
+  import guess_extension`` was used.
+
 - Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
   with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)