[3.12] GH-82695: Clarify pathlib.Path.mkdir() documentation (GH-114032) (#114462)

miss-islington · barneygale · AA-Turner · web-flow · commit 9c2db5725ee7 · 2024-01-23T02:37:35.000Z
Remove a double negative in the documentation of `mkdir()`'s *exist_ok* parameter. (cherry picked from commit 32c2274) Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <barney.gale@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -1184,9 +1184,9 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
    If *exist_ok* is false (the default), :exc:`FileExistsError` is
    raised if the target directory already exists.
 
-   If *exist_ok* is true, :exc:`FileExistsError` exceptions will be
-   ignored (same behavior as the POSIX ``mkdir -p`` command), but only if the
-   last path component is not an existing non-directory file.
+   If *exist_ok* is true, :exc:`FileExistsError` will not be raised unless the given
+   path already exists in the file system and is not a directory (same
+   behavior as the POSIX ``mkdir -p`` command).
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.5
       The *exist_ok* parameter was added.
