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GH-106747: Document another difference between `glob` and `pathlib`.
barneygale Mar 8, 2024
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Typo fix.
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Merge branch 'main' into gh-106747-empty-path
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Expand Up @@ -1682,6 +1682,10 @@ The patterns accepted and results generated by :meth:`Path.glob` and
5. The values returned from pathlib's ``path.glob()`` and ``path.rglob()``
include the *path* as a prefix, unlike the results of
``glob.glob(root_dir=path)``.
6. The values returned from pathlib's ``path.glob()`` and ``path.rglob()``
may include *path* itself, for example when globbing "``**``", whereas the
results of ``glob.glob(root_dir=path)`` never include an empty string that
would correspond to *path*.


Comparison to the :mod:`os` and :mod:`os.path` modules
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