Whitespace normalization.  Ugh, we really need to do this more often.
You might want to review this change as it's my first time.  Be gentle. :-)
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 9117208..6f15d48 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -388,10 +388,10 @@
 
     if not path:
         raise ValueError("no path specified")
-    
+
     start_list = abspath(start).split(sep)
     path_list = abspath(path).split(sep)
-    
+
     # Work out how much of the filepath is shared by start and path.
     i = len(commonprefix([start_list, path_list]))