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Add Path for type of read_default_file connection parametr #319

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@tonal

Sample code:

from pathlib import Path
import MySQLdb

conn = MySQLdb.connect(
    read_default_file=Path(__file__).with_name('mylogin.cnf').resolve())

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/home/test/projects/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 85, in Connect
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/test/projects/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 208, in __init__
    super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
TypeError: connect() argument 12 must be str, not PosixPath

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  1. fried commented on Mar 23, 2019

    @fried
    Contributor

    Only after Python 3.6 but you can use
    os.fsencode(bytes/str/Path) -> bytes
    Would have to do it in connections.py

  2. added this to the v2.0 milestone on Nov 18, 2019
  3. removed this from the v2.0 milestone on Nov 29, 2019
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