Re: [Python-Dev] patch for os.path.commonprefix (changes semantics - pls review)

skip wrote:

Also, since the version in ntpath.py was the same as the version in posixpath.py I modified both, replacing "/" with os.sep (is that correct?).

see my comment on the site (in short: you should split on either os.sep or os.altsep, or normalize before splitting. and don't forget UNC names: \\machine\directory...). </F>