[Python-Dev] A wart which should have been repaired in 3.0?

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    skip> I just stumbled upon it again.  It seems to me this would have
    skip> been a good thing to fix in 3.0.  Is this something which could
    skip> change in 3.1 (or be deprecated in 3.1 with deletion in 3.2)?

This new issue in the tracker:

    http://bugs.python.org/issue4755

implements a commonpathprefix function.  As explained in the submission this
would be my second choice should it be decided that something should change.

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