We don't do much in the way of path manipulations, and we do need to be
compatible with the various backends we use, so internally, I don't see us
using anything else but strings. That said, it is probably feasible to make
sure that we cast those objects into strings.

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pandas recently made the great effort to accept pathlib.Paths as inputs
where traditionally strings would have to be provided for any path related
requirements. Could this be done also for matplotlib?

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That was all I was dreaming of so that I don't have to do the casting all the time! ;)

If you can come up with a list of functions that will need to do this
casting, that would be a huge step towards getting a PR together.

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That was all I was dreaming of so that I don't have to do the casting all
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I will, just not this month, which looks like the busiest of my life… ;)

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If you can come up with a list of functions that will need to do this
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That was all I was dreaming of so that I don't have to do the casting all
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It's worth noting that there's now a path protocol outlined in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0519/. Using it you call os.fspath on a path to get a string/bytes view of the path, and the function is easy enough to backport (I've done this for h5py already). I'll try to submit a pull request in the next few days which adds this, should it be against master, or would this be small enough to the maintenance branches?

Please target it at 2.x.

Closed by #10231.

I think this has regressed? I'm getting ValueError: fname must be a PathLike or file handle with plt.savefig(Path("fitness/fitness1.png")) works with plt.savefig(str(Path("fitness/fitness1.png")))

@LukeIreland1 Please open a new issue with your version details etc.