From 3ed4cdfe32234c47c4457ccd55164e217dc676b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:01:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Handle pathlib.Path objects in CFile

---
 spacy/cfile.pyx | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/cfile.pyx b/spacy/cfile.pyx
index 5a9c3850e..b119d3b9b 100644
--- a/spacy/cfile.pyx
+++ b/spacy/cfile.pyx
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ cdef class CFile:
             mode_str = mode.encode('ascii')
         else:
             mode_str = mode
-        loc = str(loc)
+        if hasattr(loc, 'as_posix'):
+            loc = loc.as_posix()
         cdef bytes bytes_loc = loc.encode('utf8') if type(loc) == unicode else loc
         self.fp = fopen(<char*>bytes_loc, mode_str)
         if self.fp == NULL: