[Python-Dev] A wart which should have been repaired in 3.0? (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Tue Dec 30 13:14:24 CET 2008


Paul demonstrates the shortcoming of commonprefix:

>>> os.path.commonprefix(["foo\\bar\\baz", "foo/bar/boink"])
'foo'

With the patch in issue4755:

>>> import ntpath
>>> ntpath.commonpathprefix(["foo\\bar\\baz", "foo/bar/boink"])
'foo\\bar'

Ta da ...

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