#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 # # Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved. # """Find the prefix string common to a group of paths. """ __version__ = "$Id$" #end_pymotw_header import os.path paths = ['/one/two/three/four', '/one/two/threefold', '/one/two/three/', ] print paths print os.path.commonprefix(paths)