[3.8] bpo-39808: Improve docs for pathlib.Path.stat() (GH-18719) (GH-18783)

(cherry picked from commit 67152d0)


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

Automerge-Triggered-By: @brettcannon

Author: miss-islington

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.
 
    ::