ValueError in 1.3 python version

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
In [3]: mimeparse.parse_mime_type("text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, 
*/*; q=.2")

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

In [3]: mimeparse.parse_mime_type("text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, 
*/*; q=.2")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/<ipython console> in <module>()
/tmp/mimeparse.py in parse_mime_type(mime_type)
     36     # Turn it into a legal wildcard.
     37     if full_type == '*': full_type = '*/*'
---> 38     (type, subtype) = full_type.split("/")
     39     return (type.strip(), subtype.strip(), params)
     40 
ValueError: too many values to unpack

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.3

Please provide any additional information below.
https://bitbucket.org/benoitc/django-authopenid/issue/54/type-subtype-parts-0-sp
lit-valueerror-too#comment-483268

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 May 2011 at 10:08

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Yup, also: 
'*/*,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,image/png,;q
=0.5, application/vnd.nokia.headwrapper'

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Aug 2012 at 6:46

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Specifically, this breaks the parser: */*,text/xml

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Aug 2012 at 7:07

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parse_mime_type is for parsing a *single* mime type (and optional quality 
parameters), not a list of them. 

Original comment by [email protected] on 9 Oct 2013 at 1:13