diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 15d496ec4cbe56..3a9ac275f4b5c2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -875,8 +875,6 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
        WindowsPath('c:/windows')
        >>> p = Path.from_uri('file:/c|/windows')
        WindowsPath('c:/windows')
-       >>> p = Path.from_uri('file://///c:/windows')
-       WindowsPath('c:/windows')
 
    URIs with no slash after the scheme (and no drive letter) are parsed as
    relative paths::
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index 67492a29593d34..ef2a8abbca0285 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -3463,7 +3463,6 @@ def test_from_uri(self):
         self.assertEqual(P.from_uri('file:c|/path/to/file'), P('c:/path/to/file'))
         self.assertEqual(P.from_uri('file:/c|/path/to/file'), P('c:/path/to/file'))
         self.assertEqual(P.from_uri('file:///c|/path/to/file'), P('c:/path/to/file'))
-        self.assertEqual(P.from_uri('file://///c|/path/to/file'), P('c:/path/to/file'))
         # UNC paths
         self.assertEqual(P.from_uri('file://server/path/to/file'), P('//server/path/to/file'))
         self.assertEqual(P.from_uri('file:////server/path/to/file'), P('//server/path/to/file'))