Support use of pathlib.Path for asdf.open and write_to

CHANGES.rst

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 
 - Deprecate the ``asdf.asdftypes`` module in favor of ``asdf.types``. [#611]
 
+- Support use of ``pathlib.Path`` with ``asdf.open`` and ``AsdfFile.write_to``.
+  [#617]
+
 2.2.1 (2018-11-15)
 ------------------
 

asdf/generic_io.py

@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
 """
 
 import io
-import math
 import os
-import platform
 import re
 import sys
+import math
+import pathlib
 import tempfile
+import platform
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 from os import SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END
@@ -1171,8 +1172,8 @@ def get_file(init, mode='r', uri=None, close=False):
                     init.mode, mode))
         return GenericWrapper(init)
 
-    elif isinstance(init, str):
-        parsed = urlparse.urlparse(init)
+    elif isinstance(init, (str, pathlib.Path)):
+        parsed = urlparse.urlparse(str(init))
         if parsed.scheme in ['http', 'https']:
             if 'w' in mode:
                 raise ValueError(

asdf/tests/test_api.py

@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ def test_open_pathlib_path(tmpdir):
     with asdf.AsdfFile(tree) as af:
         af.write_to(path)
 
-    with asdf.open(tree) as af:
-        assert af['data'] == tree['data']
+    with asdf.open(path) as af:
+        assert (af['data'] == tree['data']).all()
 
 
 @pytest.mark.skip(reason='Until inline_threshold is added as a write option')