[Python-checkins] [3.7] bpo-39808: Improve docs for pathlib.Path.stat() (GH-18719) (GH-18782)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6bb67452d4f21e2d948dafce7644b1d66e5efcb8
commit: 6bb67452d4f21e2d948dafce7644b1d66e5efcb8
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
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date: 2020-03-04T15:17:39-08:00
summary:

[3.7] bpo-39808: Improve docs for pathlib.Path.stat() (GH-18719) (GH-18782)



(cherry picked from commit 67152d0ed670227b61b5df683655b196ab04ca1a)


Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <54418+brettcannon at users.noreply.github.com>

Automerge-Triggered-By: @brettcannon

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M Doc/library/pathlib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 5b2df3feb7084..9ed5d9da55a21 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist):
 
 .. method:: Path.stat()
 
-   Return information about this path (similarly to :func:`os.stat`).
+   Return a :class:`os.stat_result` object containing information about this path, like :func:`os.stat`.
    The result is looked up at each call to this method.
 
    ::