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

[Antoine Pitrou]

<skip <at> pobox.com> writes:
> 
> If we add commonpath or commonpathprefix or pathprefix, or whatever, then
> find someplace to move the existing commonprefix function (maybe to the
> string module or as a class method of string objects?) then could we make a
> 2to3 fixer for this?

IMHO it's a bug, the py3k migration process needn't apply.