Issue #27186: Add os.PathLike support to pathlib.

This adds support both to pathlib.PurePath's constructor as well as
implementing __fspath__(). This removes the provisional status for
pathlib.

Initial patch by Dusty Phillips.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index 1480e2f..a06676f 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -634,13 +634,16 @@ class PurePath(object):
         for a in args:
             if isinstance(a, PurePath):
                 parts += a._parts
-            elif isinstance(a, str):
-                # Force-cast str subclasses to str (issue #21127)
-                parts.append(str(a))
             else:
-                raise TypeError(
-                    "argument should be a path or str object, not %r"
-                    % type(a))
+                a = os.fspath(a)
+                if isinstance(a, str):
+                    # Force-cast str subclasses to str (issue #21127)
+                    parts.append(str(a))
+                else:
+                    raise TypeError(
+                        "argument should be a str object or an os.PathLike "
+                        "object returning str, not %r"
+                        % type(a))
         return cls._flavour.parse_parts(parts)
 
     @classmethod
@@ -693,6 +696,9 @@ class PurePath(object):
                                                   self._parts) or '.'
             return self._str
 
+    def __fspath__(self):
+        return str(self)
+
     def as_posix(self):
         """Return the string representation of the path with forward (/)
         slashes."""
@@ -943,6 +949,10 @@ class PurePath(object):
                 return False
         return True
 
+# Can't subclass os.PathLike from PurePath and keep the constructor
+# optimizations in PurePath._parse_args().
+os.PathLike.register(PurePath)
+
 
 class PurePosixPath(PurePath):
     _flavour = _posix_flavour