What is the Pythonic way to find the longest common prefix of a list of lists?

Question

Given: a list of lists, such as [[3,2,1], [3,2,1,4,5], [3,2,1,8,9], [3,2,1,5,7,8,9]]

Todo: Find the longest common

Answer 1

I am not sure how pythonic it is

from itertools import takewhile,izip

x = [[3,2,1], [3,2,1,4,5], [3,2,1,8,9], [3,2,1,5,7,8,9]]

def allsame(x):
    return len(set(x)) == 1

r = [i[0] for i in takewhile(allsame ,izip(*x))]