>>>>> "skip" == skip <s...@pobox.com> writes:
Martin> I don't think any change is necessary. os.path.commonprefix
Martin> works just fine on path components:
skip> Ummm...
>>> os.path.commonprefix(["/export/home", "/etc/passwd"])
'/e'
skip> I suppose that's correct given the defined behavior of the
skip> function, but it certainly doesn't seem to be very path-like to
skip> me.
I should also point out that most people will not have the foresight to use
it the way Martin demonstrated. Documentation or not, I'll be a fair
fraction of all usage assumes the return value represents a valid path.
Martin> Of course, using it that way would require a library function
Martin> that reliably splits a path into components; I think one would
Martin> have to do abspath on arbitrary inputs.
Kinda what I think os.path.split ought to do. Should I tackle that next?
;-)
Skip
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