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

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:28:00 -0400

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

... just look at what your browser does when you request http://www.python.org/search ... the server redirects you to search/ to make sure that the links embedded in the page are relative to search/ and not www.python.org/.

While that seems to be what Apache does, I get 40x's from IIS and Netscape server. Greg Ewing's demonstrated a Unix where the trailing slash indicates nothing useful, Tim's demonstrated that Windows gets confused by a trailing slash unless we're talking about the root directory on a drive (and BTW, same results if you use backslash).

On WIndows, os.path.commonprefix doesn't use normcase and normpath, so it's completely useless anyway. (That is, it's really a "string" function and has nothing to do with paths).