Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”
18 points by kngl
18 points by kngl
I'm a bit surprised this made it to Python 3 at all. It was already known to be badly named/placed by the time, and I do remember Python 3 rearranging / dropping bits of the stdlib.
I would suspect it was because pathlib was the new hot thing. This left os.path in a kind of legacy limbo. They weren't going to.remove the module but at the same time nobody was particularly interested in it.