René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"All standard library functions accepting `str` paths must accept `PathLike` as well","articleBody":"*Inspired by gh-3484 that tried to fix this for `wave.open()` only but failed.*\r\n\r\nWe need a centralized and universal approach instead so everything accepting `str` paths could automatically accept `PathLike` for free.\r\n\r\nFor this, we can amend stdlib functions to wrap their path arguments into `pathlib.PurePath` introduced in Python 3.4. Unlike `os.fspath`, it throws a nicely formatted exception for us:\r\n\r\n- `os.fspath` from the mentioned gh-3484: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/4a82d651b5472641f966959e046b89f0ade3a8a7/Lib/aifc.py#L912-L918\r\n- `PurePath`:\r\n\r\n   ```python\r\n   \u003e\u003e\u003e import pathlib\r\n   \u003e\u003e\u003e pathlib.PurePath(16)\r\n   Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n     File \"\u003cstdin\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\r\n     File \"D:\\Oleg\\cpython\\Lib\\pathlib.py\", line 267, in __new__\r\n       return cls._from_parts(args)\r\n              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\r\n     File \"D:\\Oleg\\cpython\\Lib\\pathlib.py\", line 316, in _from_parts\r\n       drv, root, parts = self._parse_args(args)\r\n                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\r\n     File \"D:\\Oleg\\cpython\\Lib\\pathlib.py\", line 300, in _parse_args\r\n       a = os.fspath(a)\r\n           ^^^^^^^^^^^^\r\n   TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not int\r\n   ```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/arhadthedev","@type":"Person","name":"arhadthedev"},"datePublished":"2023-03-04T18:27:48.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/102425/cpython/issues/102425"}