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-rw-r--r--Lib/posixpath.py17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 7f907ef..7ee4911 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -123,16 +123,13 @@ def dirname(p):
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:
- for i in range(len(prefix)):
- if prefix[:i+1] != item[:i+1]:
- prefix = prefix[:i]
- if i == 0:
- return ''
- break
- return prefix
-
+ s1 = min(m)
+ s2 = max(m)
+ n = min(len(s1), len(s2))
+ for i in xrange(n):
+ if s1[i] != s2[i]:
+ return s1[:i]
+ return s1[:n]
# Get size, mtime, atime of files.