How to circumvent the fallacy of Python's os.path.commonprefix?

Question

My problem is to find the common path prefix of a given set of files.

Literally I was expecting that \"os.path.commonprefix\" would do just that. Unfortunat

Answer 1

It seems that this issue has been corrected in recent versions of Python. New in version 3.5 is the function os.path.commonpath(), which returns the common path instead of the common string prefix.