[suggestion] Add support for pathlib.Path

[rysson]

Path for pathlib is recommended and very nice way to handle system paths. Could you add support it in pyexiv2.Image?

[LeoHsiao1]

Hello! After receiving your suggestion, I have read the official pathlib documentation these two days, My conclusion is that pathlib has fewer features than os.path. So I'm not going to use pathlib for long.

Also, the result of calling pathlib does not conform to my habit of using os.path. For example:

D:\>python
Python 3.8.6 (tags/v3.8.6:db45529, Sep 23 2020, 15:52:53) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> Path('../test/1.txt').resolve() 
WindowsPath('D:/test/1.txt')
>>> Path('./test/1.txt').resolve()       # Failed to convert to absolute path
WindowsPath('test/1.txt')
>>>
>>> import os
>>> os.path.abspath('./test/1.txt')
'D:\\test\\1.txt'

Finally, I recommend that you convert your pathlib.Path to a normal string and then use:

p = pathlib.Path('1.jpg')
pyexiv2.Image(str(p))

[rysson]

Sure, I've used it in this way already. os.path works with pathlib too (as well as with str), so there should be no regression.

BTW. I started using pathlib just a few month ago (after years of ignoring it). I understand and close the issue. Use str(path) is not so difficult :-)

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