fixed semantics of commonprefix to work by path elements instead of
characters.
diff --git a/Lib/ntpath.py b/Lib/ntpath.py
index 23b7ce3..a1fcaa9 100644
--- a/Lib/ntpath.py
+++ b/Lib/ntpath.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
import os
import stat
import string
-
+import copy
# Normalize the case of a pathname and map slashes to backslashes.
# Other normalizations (such as optimizing '../' away) are not done
@@ -158,14 +158,17 @@
def commonprefix(m):
"Given a list of pathnames, returns the longest common leading component"
if not m: return ''
- prefix = m[0]
- for item in m:
+ n = copy.copy(m)
+ for i in range(len(n)):
+ n[i] = n[i].split(os.sep)
+ prefix = n[0]
+ for item in n:
for i in range(len(prefix)):
if prefix[:i+1] <> item[:i+1]:
prefix = prefix[:i]
if i == 0: return ''
break
- return prefix
+ return os.sep.join(prefix)
# Get size, mtime, atime of files.