RosettaCodeData/Task/Find-common-directory-path/Python/find-common-directory-path-2.py

>>> def commonprefix(args, sep='/'):
	return os.path.commonprefix(args).rpartition(sep)[0]

>>> commonprefix(['/home/user1/tmp/coverage/test',
                  '/home/user1/tmp/covert/operator', '/home/user1/tmp/coven/members'])
'/home/user1/tmp'
Another update from ingydotnet^djgoku 2015-11-18 06:14:39 +00:00			`>>> def commonprefix(args, sep='/'):`
			`return os.path.commonprefix(args).rpartition(sep)[0]`
A-M baby 2013-04-10 21:29:02 -07:00
			`>>> commonprefix(['/home/user1/tmp/coverage/test',`
			`'/home/user1/tmp/covert/operator', '/home/user1/tmp/coven/members'])`
			`'/home/user1/tmp'`