### Summary

Please add more filters based on os.path, specifically: `os.path.commonpath`, `os.path.normpath`. It is cheap, but would be handy in such tasks as validation, archive management, programmatic path generation. Can replace a lot of loops and regex filters.

### Issue Type

Feature Idea

### Component Name

core

### Additional Information

none

### Code of Conduct

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'''  value ? true_val : false_val '''
    if value is None and none_val is not None:
        return none_val
    elif bool(value):
        return true_val
    else:
        return false_val
def regex_escape(string, re_type='python'):
    string = to_text(string, errors='surrogate_or_strict', nonstring='simplerepr')
    '''Escape all regular expressions special characters from STRING.'''
    if re_type == 'python':
        return re.escape(string)
    elif re_type == 'posix_basic':
        
        
        return regex_replace(string, r'([].[^$*\\])', r'\\\1')
    
    
    
    
    elif re_type == 'posix_extended':
        raise AnsibleFilterError('Regex type (%s) not yet implemented' % re_type)
    else:
        raise AnsibleFilterError('Invalid regex type (%s)' % re_type)
def from_yaml(data):