bpo-39285: Clarify example for PurePath.match (GH-19458)
Fixes Issue39285
The example incorrectly returned True for match.
Furthermore the example is ambiguous in its usage of PureWindowsPath.
Windows is case-insensitve, however the underlying match functionality
utilizes fnmatch.fnmatchcase.
Automerge-Triggered-By: @pitrou
(cherry picked from commit c12375aa0b838d34067efa3f1b9a1fbc632d0413)
Co-authored-by: Tim Lo <timlo@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 0340814..b900d09 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -515,8 +515,10 @@
>>> PurePath('a/b.py').match('/*.py')
False
- As with other methods, case-sensitivity is observed::
+ As with other methods, case-sensitivity follows platform defaults::
+ >>> PurePosixPath('b.py').match('*.PY')
+ False
>>> PureWindowsPath('b.py').match('*.PY')
True