GH-106747: Document another difference between glob and pathlib. (#116518)

barneygale · web-flow · commit 72eea512b88f · 2024-03-22T19:14:09.000Z
Document that `path.glob()` might return *path*, whereas
`glob.glob(root_dir=path)` will never return an empty string corresponding
to *path*.
diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -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
