add support for os.PathLike arguments

svgpathtools/svg_to_paths.py

@@ -4,9 +4,13 @@ The main tool being the svg2paths() function."""
 # External dependencies
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 from xml.dom.minidom import parse
-from os import path as os_path, getcwd
+import os
 from io import StringIO
 import re
+try:
+    from os import PathLike as FilePathLike
+except ImportError:
+    FilePathLike = str
 
 # Internal dependencies
 from .parser import parse_path
@@ -173,10 +177,8 @@ def svg2paths(svg_file_location,
     """
     # strings are interpreted as file location everything else is treated as
     # file-like object and passed to the xml parser directly
-    if isinstance(svg_file_location, str):
-        if os_path.dirname(svg_file_location) == '':
-            svg_file_location = os_path.join(
-                getcwd(), svg_file_location)
+    from_filepath = isinstance(svg_file_location, str) or isinstance(svg_file_location, FilePathLike)
+    svg_file_location = os.path.abspath(svg_file_location) if from_filepath else svg_file_location
 
     doc = parse(svg_file_location)
 

test/test_svg2paths.py

@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ from svgpathtools import *
 from io import StringIO
 from io import open  # overrides build-in open for compatibility with python2
 from os.path import join, dirname
-# try:
-#     import pathlib
-# except ImportError:
-#     import pathlib2 as pathlib
+from sys import version_info
 
 from svgpathtools.svg_to_paths import rect2pathd
 
@@ -67,16 +64,18 @@ class TestSVG2Paths(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(rect2pathd(rounded), "M 25.0 10.0 L 95.0 10.0 A 15.0 12.0 0 0 1 110.0 22.0 L 110.0 98.0 A 15.0 12.0 0 0 1 95.0 110.0 L 25.0 110.0 A 15.0 12.0 0 0 1 10.0 98.0 L 10.0 22.0 A 15.0 12.0 0 0 1 25.0 10.0 z")
 
     def test_from_file_path_string(self):
-        """ Test reading svg from file provided as path """
+        """ Test reading svg from file provided as path"""
         paths, _ = svg2paths(join(dirname(__file__), 'polygons.svg'))
 
         self.assertEqual(len(paths), 2)
 
-    # def test_from_file_path(self):
-    #     """ Test reading svg from file provided as path """
-    #     paths, _ = svg2paths(pathlib.Path(__file__) / 'polygons.svg')
-    #
-    #     self.assertEqual(len(paths), 2)
+    def test_from_file_path(self):
+        """ Test reading svg from file provided as pathlib POSIXPath"""
+        if version_info >= (3, 6):
+            import pathlib
+            paths, _ = svg2paths(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'polygons.svg')
+
+            self.assertEqual(len(paths), 2)
 
     def test_from_file_object(self):
         """ Test reading svg from file object that has already been opened """