Weird padding in Crypto.Util.Padding.pad() function in python

I'm trying to pad some plaintext to be a multiple of 16 bytes to use it as input in AES ECB block cipher.

 def encrypt(plaintext):
    plaintext = bytes.fromhex(plaintext)
    padded = pad(plaintext, 16)
    cipher = AES.new(b'0'*16, AES.MODE_ECB)
    try:
        encrypted = cipher.encrypt(padded)
    except ValueError as e:
        return {"error": str(e)}
    return {"ciphertext": encrypted.hex()}

I understand that AES is a block cipher and it accepts 16byte blocks as input. But what I need to know here is that when I'm actually providing the function with 16byte block, why is it the padding function adding another 16byte block as follows

plain = "123456789abcdefg"
plain = plain.encode("utf-8").hex()
encrypt(plain)

plaintext:  b'123456789abcdefg'
padded:  3132333435363738396162636465666710101010101010101010101010101010

Why does that happen ?

In the event that the plaintext is a multiple of the blocksize, PKCS#7 padding specifies that an additional block be added. For 128-bit blocksize, this block is all 0x10 bytes, showing 16 bytes of padding.

The reason from this is to that recipient can distinguish between (for example) a 15-byte message and a 16-byte message with the same leading 15-bytes and final byte 0x01.