pyplot.imread is missing Path and BinaryIO as valid input (pyplot.pyi )

[matrs]

The function pyplot.imread complains when a Path object is passed as input: Argument of type "Path" cannot be assigned to parameter "fname" of type "str | FileLike" in function "imread"

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pathlib import Path
path = Path('/some_dir/img.png')
plt.imread(path)  # warning here

pyplot.pyi

def imread(fname: str | FileLike, format: str = ...) -> np.ndarray: ...

plt.imread does accept Path and BinaryIO objects:

Signature:
plt.imread(
    fname: 'str | pathlib.Path | BinaryIO',
    format: 'str | None' = None,
) -> 'np.ndarray'

[debonte]

What version of matplotlib are you using? Given the signature that you show above which has type annotations, I'm assuming you're using 3.8.0 or later. These recent releases are py.typed so Pylance should be relying on matplotlib's inline type annotations rather than our bundled matplotlib stubs. Perhaps you don't have your venv selected within VS Code and that's why Pylance is using the stubs?

[matrs]

I see, i'm not sure, but probably was a problem with which environment was active (I use conda). Good to know that new versions don't rely on stubs. Thanks!