Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

We should call os.fspath in fnmatchcase so that all functions in fnmatch have path-like support:

 def fnmatchcase(name, pat):
     """Test whether FILENAME matches PATTERN, including case. 

     This is a version of fnmatch() which doesn't case-normalize
     its arguments.
     """
     match = _compile_pattern(pat)
-    return match(name) is not None
+    return match(os.fspath(name)) is not None

See #123122 (comment) and #123122 (comment)

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-123215: support path-like objects in fnmatch.fnmatchcase #123216