Jeff Hall wrote:
... For those that prefer not to add functions all willy-nilly, would it not
be better to add a "delimiter" keyword that defaults to False? Then
"delimiter=False" will function with the current functionality unchanged
while
os.path.commonprefix(["bob/export/home", "bob/etc/passwd"], delimiter =
"/")
The proper call should be:
os.path.commonprefix(["bob/example", "bob/etc/passwd"], delimiter=True)
and output:
'bob' (path to the common directory)
Perhaps even call the keyword arg "delimited," rather than "delimiter."
On Windows, I'd like to see:
os.path.commonprefix(['a/b/c.d/e'f', r'a\b\c.d\eve'], delimited=True)
return either
'a/b/c.d'
or r'a\b\c.d'
Perhaps even ['a', 'b', 'c.d'] (suitable for os.path.join).
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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