Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > The current behaviour is exactly what one would need to implement > bash-style tab completion [1], so I don't get why anyone is calling it > "useless" or "obviously broken".
Point taken. Although the fact that it lives in os.path suggests that the function should know about path components instead of ignoring their existence... A generic longest common prefix function would belong elsewhere. The issue people are having with the proposal to create a separate function is that it's a bloat of the API. I don't think the os.path module claims to give utilities for implementing bash-style tab completion, however it is supposed to make manipulation of paths easier -- which returning invalid answers (or, worse, valid but intuitively wrong answers) does not. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
