configparser.ConfigParser.read() does not accept Pathlib path as a single argument.

[DavidCEllis]

BPO	29623
Nosy	@mcepl, @berkerpeksag, @DavidCEllis
PRs	bpo-29623: Make pathlib objects work with ConfigParser.read. #242 [3.6] bpo-29623: Make PathLike objects work with ConfigParser.read() (#242) #432

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title = 'configparser.ConfigParser.read() does not accept Pathlib path as a single argument.'
updated_at = <Date 2018-03-06.19:26:27.420>
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[DavidCEllis]

Trying to use configparser.ConfigParser.read on a pathlib object results in a TypeError. If supplied in a list it works as expected.

Repro:
    >>> import pathlib, configparser
    >>> configparser.ConfigParser().read(pathlib.Path('some.ini'))

TypeError: 'PosixPath' object is not iterable

The issue appears to be line 690 which checks for str before attempting to iterate and doesn't check for os.PathLike (or bytes?).

This was actually mentioned as an example where pathlib did not work here: https://bugs.python.org/issue22570

[berkerpeksag]

New changeset 21ce65a by Berker Peksag in branch '3.6':
[3.6] bpo-29623: Make PathLike objects work with ConfigParser.read() (#242) (#432)
21ce65a

[berkerpeksag]

New changeset 85b8d01 by Berker Peksag (David Ellis) in branch 'master':
bpo-29623: Make PathLike objects work with ConfigParser.read() (#242)
85b8d01