From 435be1b5823a50b3c1627e7238cb92164cbddd99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: barneygale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:59:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore empty initialiser arguments for backwards compat

---
 Lib/pathlib.py           |  3 ++-
 Lib/test/test_pathlib.py | 11 +++++------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index b0e6739d3715ce..7e2a8b30e4eb10 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -620,7 +620,8 @@ def __init__(self, *args):
                         "argument should be a str or an os.PathLike "
                         "object where __fspath__ returns a str, "
                         f"not {type(path).__name__!r}")
-                paths.append(path)
+                if path:
+                    paths.append(path)
         self._raw_paths = paths
         self._resolving = False
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index af10b35d9711ea..06604cdbc5773a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -55,11 +55,10 @@ class PurePathTest(unittest.TestCase):
         'a/b': [
             ('a', 'b'), ('a/', 'b'), ('a//b',),
             # Empty components get removed.
-            ('', 'a', 'b'), ('a', '', 'b'),
+            ('', 'a', 'b'), ('a', '', 'b'), ('a', 'b', ''),
             ],
         'a/b/': [
-            ('a', 'b/'), ('a/', 'b/'),
-            ('a/b/',), ('a//b//',), ('a', 'b', ''),
+            ('a', 'b/'), ('a/', 'b/'), ('a/b/',), ('a//b//',),
         ],
         '/b/c/d': [
             ('a', '/b/c', 'd'), ('/a', '/b/c', 'd'),
@@ -2069,7 +2068,7 @@ def _check(glob, expected):
                 "dirA/", "dirA/linkC/", "dirB/", "dirB/linkD/", "dirC/",
                 "dirC/dirD/", "dirE/", "linkB/",
             ])
-        _check(p.rglob(""), ["", "dirA/", "dirB/", "dirC/", "dirE/", "dirC/dirD/"])
+        _check(p.rglob(""), ["./", "dirA/", "dirB/", "dirC/", "dirE/", "dirC/dirD/"])
 
         p = P(BASE, "dirC")
         _check(p.rglob("*"), ["dirC/fileC", "dirC/novel.txt",
@@ -2101,7 +2100,7 @@ def _check(path, glob, expected):
                             "dirC/fileC", "dirC/dirD/fileD", "linkB/fileB"])
         _check(p, "*/", ["dirA/", "dirA/linkC/", "dirA/linkC/linkD/", "dirB/", "dirB/linkD/",
                          "dirC/", "dirC/dirD/", "dirE/", "linkB/", "linkB/linkD/"])
-        _check(p, "", ["", "dirA/", "dirA/linkC/", "dirA/linkC/linkD/", "dirB/", "dirB/linkD/",
+        _check(p, "", ["./", "dirA/", "dirA/linkC/", "dirA/linkC/linkD/", "dirB/", "dirB/linkD/",
                        "dirC/", "dirE/", "dirC/dirD/", "linkB/", "linkB/linkD/"])
 
         p = P(BASE, "dirC")
@@ -2128,7 +2127,7 @@ def _check(path, glob, expected):
         _check(p, "*/fileB", ["dirB/fileB"])
         _check(p, "file*", ["fileA", "dirB/fileB", "dirC/fileC", "dirC/dirD/fileD", ])
         _check(p, "*/", ["dirA/", "dirB/", "dirC/", "dirC/dirD/", "dirE/"])
-        _check(p, "", ["", "dirA/", "dirB/", "dirC/", "dirE/", "dirC/dirD/"])
+        _check(p, "", ["./", "dirA/", "dirB/", "dirC/", "dirE/", "dirC/dirD/"])
 
         p = P(BASE, "dirC")
         _check(p, "*", ["dirC/fileC", "dirC/novel.txt",