From 3e511484c785f430d233da481931d06256a51df1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lonami Exo <totufals@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 21:07:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Support pathlib.Path on download_file

Fixes #1379.
---
 telethon/client/downloads.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/telethon/client/downloads.py b/telethon/client/downloads.py
index 334f28a4..1b06bfe6 100644
--- a/telethon/client/downloads.py
+++ b/telethon/client/downloads.py
@@ -443,6 +443,9 @@ class DownloadMethods:
             raise ValueError(
                 'The part size must be evenly divisible by 4096.')
 
+        if isinstance(file, pathlib.Path):
+            file = str(file.absolute())
+
         in_memory = file is None or file is bytes
         if in_memory:
             f = io.BytesIO()