[Python-Dev] Re: os.path.commonprefix breakage

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Gordon:
> 
> > os.chdir(os.pardir)
> 
> Ah, I missed that somehow. Probably I was looking in os.path
> instead of os.
> 
> Shouldn't everything to do with pathname semantics be in os.path?

Nope, os.path is just for "abstract pathname algebra". Anything
dealing with real paths on a real machine belongs elsewhere (os, probably)
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