path.startswith(dir)?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I've got some code which tests for

  commonprefix([dir, filename]) == dir

Assuming that dir ends with a separator (e.g. '/'), it ought to be
just as safe (and more concise) to use

  filename.startswith(dir)

no?

And -- ensuring that dir ends with a separator can be done with

  dir = join(dir, '')

This ought to be a safe/platform independent way of doing it, right?

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