Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
For now, there are three uses of commonprefix() in the stdlib: 1. In urllib.request it causes a security issue (see issue46756). commonpath() or just str.startswith() should be used instead. 2. In lib2to3.main. The code contains a workaround around commonprefix(). It could be simplified by using commonpath(). 3. In unittest.util. This is the only correct use of commonprefix(). It cannot be replaced by commonpath(). I think that we should add commonprefix() in the string module (or maybe in a new module for operations on sequences), deprecate os.path.commonprefix() in documentation only, several versions later add a deprecation warning in os.path.commonprefix(), and several versions later remove os.path.commonprefix(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue30267> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
