Seth Larson @sethmlarson@mastodon.social
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Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”. After fixing a vulnerability in , I started digging into the confusing API and found more than I expected.

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Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”

The os.path.commonprefix() function has been an API in the Python standard library for at least 35 years (since February 1991) and in that time has been confusing users and creating security issues...

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