[issue23082] pathlib relative_to() can give confusing error message

[Sadhana Srinivasan]

Sadhana Srinivasan <sadhanasrinivasan at pm.me> added the comment:

I'll work on this. 

I tried to come up with a single error message but having two different error messages seems like a better idea to me. One for when the path isn't a subpath and one for when absolute and relative paths are mixed. Basically to explain this:

>>> Path("/Users/rotuna/Documents/cpython/Libs").relative_to(Path("./Libs"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/rotuna/Documents/cpython/Lib/pathlib.py", line 907, in relative_to
    raise ValueError("{!r} is not a subpath of{!r}. NOTE: If this is not true, use absolute paths"
ValueError: '/Users/rotuna/Documents/cpython/Libs' does not start with 'Libs'

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nosy: +rotuna

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