Detect blocking calls in coroutines during tests using BlockBuster

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Summary

BlockBuster is a library to detect harmful blocking calls done in the async event loop (when activated, it raises an error if a blocking call is done). It is just a few lines to integrate with pytest. Globally, httpx is a good citizen and the only blocking call it detected is mimetypes.guess_type in Request constructor. mimetypes has a global cache so this blocking call is only done once. Solutions for this would be:

• defer the mimetype resolution to when the request is actually called and call mimetypes.guess_type in a thread
• or just accept that it blocks for a short time only once and add an exemption in blockbuster setup. I've also seen blocking calls made when using HTTPS but there seems to be no unit tests for async+TLS.

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