diff -r 2893528e6be1 Doc/library/os.path.rst
--- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst	Sat May 25 13:39:15 2013 -0400
+++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst	Sat May 25 13:54:42 2013 -0400
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@
 names on Windows (in the standard ``mbcs`` encoding), hence Windows
 applications should use string objects to access all files.
 
-The empty path is not valid on most systems; queries on it will raise
-:exc:`OSError`. Pure path manipulation functions (:func:`split` et al.)
-treat the empty path naturally; :func:`abspath`, :func:`normpath`, and 
-:func:`realpath` are the exceptions.
-
 Unlike a unix shell, Python does not do any *automatic* path expansions.
 Functions such as :func:`expanduser` and :func:`expandvars` can be invoked
 explicitly when an application desires shell-like path expansion.  (See also
@@ -227,8 +222,7 @@
    references so that ``A//B``, ``A/B/``, ``A/./B`` and ``A/foo/../B`` all
    become ``A/B``.  This string manipulation may change the meaning of a path
    that contains symbolic links.  On Windows, it converts forward slashes to
-   backward slashes.  Note that ``normpath('')`` is ``'.'``.  To normalize case,
-   use :func:`normcase`.
+   backward slashes. To normalize case, use :func:`normcase`.
 
 
 .. function:: realpath(path)