Avoid recursion for subclasses of str that are also "PathLike" in to_filehandle() #11307
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This is the case for path.py for example.
Fixes gh-11306
PR Summary
If the path to
savefig
is both a subclass ofstr
and aPathLike
object,to_filehandle()
creates an infinite recursion.The PR simplifies the code while avoiding this corner case.
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