Issue #20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix again.

Patch by July Tikhonov.

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -759,11 +759,10 @@ def with_name(self, name):
     def with_suffix(self, suffix):
         """Return a new path with the file suffix changed (or added, if none)."""
         # XXX if suffix is None, should the current suffix be removed?
-        drv, root, parts = self._flavour.parse_parts((suffix,))
-        if drv or root or len(parts) != 1:
+        f = self._flavour
+        if f.sep in suffix or f.altsep and f.altsep in suffix:
             raise ValueError("Invalid suffix %r" % (suffix))
-        suffix = parts[0]
-        if not suffix.startswith('.'):
+        if suffix and not suffix.startswith('.') or suffix == '.':
             raise ValueError("Invalid suffix %r" % (suffix))
         name = self.name
         if not name:

Lib/test/test_pathlib.py

@@ -551,6 +551,9 @@ def test_with_suffix_common(self):
         self.assertEqual(P('/a/b').with_suffix('.gz'), P('/a/b.gz'))
         self.assertEqual(P('a/b.py').with_suffix('.gz'), P('a/b.gz'))
         self.assertEqual(P('/a/b.py').with_suffix('.gz'), P('/a/b.gz'))
+        # Stripping suffix
+        self.assertEqual(P('a/b.py').with_suffix(''), P('a/b'))
+        self.assertEqual(P('/a/b').with_suffix(''), P('/a/b'))
         # Path doesn't have a "filename" component
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('').with_suffix, '.gz')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('.').with_suffix, '.gz')
@@ -558,9 +561,12 @@ def test_with_suffix_common(self):
         # Invalid suffix
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, 'gz')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, '/')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, '.')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, '/.gz')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, 'c/d')
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, '.c/.d')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, './.d')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, P('a/b').with_suffix, '.d/.')
 
     def test_relative_to_common(self):
         P = self.cls

Misc/NEWS

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix
+  again.  Patch by July Tikhonov.
+
 - Issue #21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using
   Path.with_name().  Original patch by Antony Lee.