diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst index 3ff2631d73c0b2..4fba3622b073a7 100644 --- 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