`wave.open` does not work with `pathlib.Path` files

[mbyrnepr2]

Bug report

Bug description:

Scenario 1 - Opening the file for reading

# Opening the file for reading
import wave

from pathlib import Path


AUDIO_FILE = Path("sound.wav")

with wave.open(AUDIO_FILE, "rb") as wave_read:
 pass

Output:

AttributeError: 'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'read'

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Scenario 2 - Opening the file for writing

# Opening a file for writing

import wave

from pathlib import Path


AUDIO_FILE = Path("sound.wav")

with wave.open(AUDIO_FILE, "wb") as wave_write:
 wave_write.setnchannels(1)
 wave_write.setsampwidth(2)
 wave_write.setframerate(44100)

Output:

AttributeError: 'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'write'. Did you mean: 'drive'?

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

Linked PRs

• gh-75593: Allow opening of path-like files with wave.open #140951

[serhiy-storchaka]

This is a duplicate of #75593.

[mbyrnepr2]

Oh sorry about that!

[serhiy-storchaka]

I have reopened the old issue, so you can just change the issue number in the PR.

[mbyrnepr2]

Many thanks @serhiy-storchaka.
So, I'll point my PR to the existing issue then.