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gh-91317: Document that Path does not collapse initial // #32193

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PureWindowsPath('c:/Program Files')

Spurious slashes and single dots are collapsed, but double dots (``'..'``)
are not, since this would change the meaning of a path in the face of
symbolic links::
and initial double slashes (``'//'``) are not, since this would change the
meaning of a path in the face of symbolic links and UNC (network) paths
respectively::
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>>> PurePath('foo//bar')
PurePosixPath('foo/bar')
>>> PurePath('//foo/bar')
PurePosixPath('//foo/bar')
>>> PurePath('foo/./bar')
PurePosixPath('foo/bar')
>>> PurePath('foo/../bar')
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Document that :class:`pathlib.PurePath` does not collapse
initial double slashes because they denote UNC paths. Patch by Oleg Iarygin.