def common_start()

in ml/trl_rlhf_data.py [0:0]

• 8 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def common_start(str1: str, str2: str) -> str:
    # Zip the two strings and iterate over them together
    common_chars = []
    for c1, c2 in zip(str1, str2):
        if c1 == c2:
            common_chars.append(c1)
        else:
            break
    # Join the common characters and return as a string
    return "".join(common_chars)