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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:02:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [3.7] bpo-22062: Updated docstring and documentation for
 pathlib (GH-8519) (GH-11817)

Original patch by Mike Short


https://bugs.python.org/issue22062
(cherry picked from commit 537b6caa565ec2fc304ba6f4400cd347ce2af64b)


Co-authored-by: Eivind Teig <eivind.teig@gmail.com>


https://bugs.python.org/issue22062
---
 Doc/library/pathlib.rst                                     | 6 +++---
 Lib/pathlib.py                                              | 5 +++--
 .../Documentation/2018-07-28-12-41-01.bpo-22062.TaN2hn.rst  | 1 +
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-07-28-12-41-01.bpo-22062.TaN2hn.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index b4ae293d14b..7d4b41b1dd1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist):
 
 .. method:: Path.glob(pattern)
 
-   Glob the given *pattern* in the directory represented by this path,
+   Glob the given relative *pattern* in the directory represented by this path,
    yielding all matching files (of any kind)::
 
       >>> sorted(Path('.').glob('*.py'))
@@ -970,8 +970,8 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist):
 
 .. method:: Path.rglob(pattern)
 
-   This is like calling :meth:`Path.glob` with "``**``" added in front of the
-   given *pattern*::
+   This is like calling :func:`Path.glob` with "``**/``" added in front of the
+   given relative *pattern*::
 
       >>> sorted(Path().rglob("*.py"))
       [PosixPath('build/lib/pathlib.py'),
diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index 067edf1221e..dd6a83f715f 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ class Path(PurePath):
 
     def glob(self, pattern):
         """Iterate over this subtree and yield all existing files (of any
-        kind, including directories) matching the given pattern.
+        kind, including directories) matching the given relative pattern.
         """
         if not pattern:
             raise ValueError("Unacceptable pattern: {!r}".format(pattern))
@@ -1104,7 +1104,8 @@ class Path(PurePath):
 
     def rglob(self, pattern):
         """Recursively yield all existing files (of any kind, including
-        directories) matching the given pattern, anywhere in this subtree.
+        directories) matching the given relative pattern, anywhere in
+        this subtree.
         """
         pattern = self._flavour.casefold(pattern)
         drv, root, pattern_parts = self._flavour.parse_parts((pattern,))
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-07-28-12-41-01.bpo-22062.TaN2hn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-07-28-12-41-01.bpo-22062.TaN2hn.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cb47fe136e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-07-28-12-41-01.bpo-22062.TaN2hn.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update documentation and docstrings for pathlib. Original patch by Mike Short.