Paul demonstrates the shortcoming of commonprefix:

    >>> os.path.commonprefix(["foo\\bar\\baz", "foo/bar/boink"])
    'foo'

With the patch in issue4755:

    >>> import ntpath
    >>> ntpath.commonpathprefix(["foo\\bar\\baz", "foo/bar/boink"])
    'foo\\bar'

Ta da ...

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