[Python-Dev] os.path.commonprefix

[Skip Montanaro]

>>>>> "Armin" == Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> writes:

    Armin> Can't we deprecate the thing and move it elsewhere? (where?)

How about just adding commonpathprefix?  As I mentioned before, there's an
implementation in Tools/scripts/trace.py.

    Armin> In all cases, wouldn't it be worth a documentation note?

The docs for the function state, "Note that this may return invalid paths
because it works a character at a time."  I suspect that's sufficient.

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