Support for pathlib

[adamjstewart]

Summary

We should add support for Python's pathlib module.

Rationale

Users may want to pass in a Path object instead of a string.

Implementation

The type hints will change from str to Union[str, bytes, os.PathLike] according to PEP 519.

Alternatives

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Additional information

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[pioneerHitesh]

I would like to contribute to this, can this be assigned to me?

[adamjstewart]

Assigned, thanks for the help @pioneerHitesh!

[adamjstewart]

sklearn actually did the exact same thing in their latest release: scikit-learn/scikit-learn#27468

[kvenkman]

If this is still an issue, could I contribute to this?

[adamjstewart]

@pioneerHitesh was working on this, up to him whether or not he wants to let you take over.

P.S. torchvision 0.17 was released a couple days ago. Does this add support for pathlib to their download/extract functions? This will make the conversion much easier in TorchGeo, I think that's the only thing we were waiting on.

[pioneerHitesh]

@adamjstewart The PR has not been made into stable release yet. Regarding taking over of the project. I am more inclined to complete the work myself although i appreciate @kvenkman interest in it.

[kvenkman]

Sounds good, happy to help as needed @pioneerHitesh!