GH-79634: Accept path-like objects as pathlib glob patterns. (#114017)

Allow `os.PathLike` objects to be passed as patterns to `pathlib.Path.glob()` and `rglob()`. (It's already possible to use them in `PurePath.match()`)

While we're in the area:

- Allow empty glob patterns in `PathBase` (but not `Path`)
- Speed up globbing in `PathBase` by generating paths with trailing slashes only as a final step, rather than for every intermediate directory.
- Simplify and speed up handling of rare patterns involving both `**` and `..` segments.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib/test_pathlib_abc.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib/test_pathlib_abc.py
index f877c98..199718a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib/test_pathlib_abc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib/test_pathlib_abc.py
@@ -1045,9 +1045,12 @@ class DummyPathTest(DummyPurePathTest):
             _check(p.glob("*/"), ["dirA/", "dirB/", "dirC/", "dirE/", "linkB/"])
 
     def test_glob_empty_pattern(self):
-        p = self.cls('')
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'Unacceptable pattern'):
-            list(p.glob(''))
+        def _check(glob, expected):
+            self.assertEqual(set(glob), { P(self.base, q) for q in expected })
+        P = self.cls
+        p = P(self.base)
+        _check(p.glob(""), [""])
+        _check(p.glob("."), ["."])
 
     def test_glob_case_sensitive(self):
         P = self.cls