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

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:02:09 +1200 (NZST)

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maybe we should move it to some other module that has no directory path implications.

I agree!

Perhaps string? Oh, that's deprecated.

Is the whole string module deprecated, or only those parts which are now available as string methods? I think trying to eliminate the string module altogether would be a mistake, since it would leave nowhere for string operations that don't make sense as methods of a string.

The current version of commonprefix is a case in point, since it operates symmetrically on a collection of strings.

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