[Python-Dev] Re: os.path.commonprefix breakage (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:53:05 +1200 (NZST)

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Alternatively, how about os.path.suffixes? It would work similar to os.path.commonprefix, but instead of returning the prefix of a group of files, return a list of the suffixes resulting in the application of the common prefix:

To avoid duplication of effort, how about a single function that does both:

files = ["/home/swen", "/home/swanson", "/home/jules"] os.path.factorize(files) ("/home", ["swen", "swanson", "jules"])

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