[Python-Dev] A wart which should have been repaired in 3.0? (original) (raw)
Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Dec 30 13:33:36 CET 2008
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At 06:14 AM 12/30/2008 -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:
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'
But it doesn't handle the fact that Windows paths are case-insensitive, or that Posix paths can have symlinks... or that one path might be relative and another absolute...
As soon as you move away from being a string operation, you get an endless series of gotchas... none of which are currently documented.
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