[Python-Dev] os.path.commonprefix

[Bernhard Herzog]

Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> writes:

> >>> commonprefix(['/home/users/arigo', '/home/users/alal'])
> '/home/users/a'
> 
> What is the use for such a thing ??

I suppose you could use it for something like filename completion as
found in many unix shells. That's perhaps the reason why it's in os.path
and not in string.

   Bernhard

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