The "parts" property now simply returns a tuple (the slightly magic slicing behaviour is gone)

pep-0428.txt

@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Some examples::
     >>> p.root
     '/'
     >>> p.parts
-    <PosixPath.parts: ['/', 'home', 'antoine', 'pathlib', 'setup.py']>
+    ('/', 'home', 'antoine', 'pathlib', 'setup.py')
     >>> p.relative_to('/home/antoine')
     PosixPath('pathlib/setup.py')
     >>> p.exists()
@@ -469,29 +469,18 @@ ValueError is raised if the method cannot return a meaningful value::
 Sequence-like access
 --------------------
 
-The ``parts`` property provides read-only sequence access to a path object::
+The ``parts`` property returns a tuple providing read-only sequence access
+to a path's components::
 
     >>> p = PurePosixPath('/etc/init.d')
     >>> p.parts
-    <PurePosixPath.parts: ['/', 'etc', 'init.d']>
+    ('/', 'etc', 'init.d')
-
-Simple indexing returns the invidual path component as a string, while
-slicing returns a new path object constructed from the selected components::
-
-    >>> p.parts[-1]
-    'init.d'
-    >>> p.parts[:-1]
-    PurePosixPath('/etc')
 
 Windows paths handle the drive and the root as a single path component::
 
     >>> p = PureWindowsPath('c:/setup.py')
     >>> p.parts
-    <PureWindowsPath.parts: ['c:\\', 'setup.py']>
+    ('c:\\', 'setup.py')
-    >>> p.root
-    '\\'
-    >>> p.parts[0]
-    'c:\\'
 
 (separating them would be wrong, since ``C:`` is not the parent of ``C:\\``).