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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 18:36:54 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [3.8] bpo-39808: Improve docs for pathlib.Path.stat() (GH-18719) (GH-18783)
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[3.8] bpo-39808: Improve docs for pathlib.Path.stat() (GH-18719) (GH-18783)



(cherry picked from commit 67152d0ed670227b61b5df683655b196ab04ca1a)


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

Automerge-Triggered-By: @brettcannon
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 326bb2e933cd..03408145cf57 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ 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.
 
    ::