Addsversionchanged:: 3.14 note toPurePath.stem attribute documentation
Explains thatstem behavior changed because a single dot is now considered a valid suffix
Example:PurePosixPath('my/file.').stem previously returned'file.', now returns'file'

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…3.14Add versionchanged note explaining that the behavior of stem changedin Python 3.14 because a single dot is now considered a valid suffix.Previously 'file.'.stem returned 'file.', now it returns 'file'.Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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