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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	ncoghlan, skip.montanaro
Date	2008-12-27.04:24:11
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Message-id	<1230351852.39.0.694414055794.issue4755@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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A new function sounds like a good solution to me. How about just calling it "os.path.commonpath" though? I agree having a path component based prefix function in os.path is highly desirable, particularly since the addition of relpath in 2.6: base_dir = os.path.commonpath(paths) rel_paths = [os.path.relpath(p, base_dir) for p in paths]

A new function sounds like a good solution to me. How about just calling
it "os.path.commonpath" though?

I agree having a path component based prefix function in os.path is
highly desirable, particularly since the addition of relpath in 2.6:

base_dir = os.path.commonpath(paths)
rel_paths = [os.path.relpath(p, base_dir) for p in paths]

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-27 04:24:12	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, skip.montanaro
2008-12-27 04:24:12	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1230351852.39.0.694414055794.issue4755@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-12-27 04:24:11	ncoghlan	link	issue4755 messages
2008-12-27 04:24:11	ncoghlan	create