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Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
python · miss-islington · Mar 5, 2023 · Feb 7, 2023 · Feb 25, 2023 · Feb 28, 2023
commit 37be0837b8be06eeacd34822bb663ae7be81d7f7
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ we also call *flavours*:
 
    Each element of *pathsegments* can be either a string representing a
    path segment, or an object implementing the :class:`os.PathLike` interface
-   which returns a string, such as another path object::
+   where the :meth:`~os.PathLike.__fspath__` method returns a string,
+   such as another path object::
 
       >>> PurePath('foo', 'some/path', 'bar')
       PurePosixPath('foo/some/path/bar')

@@ -287,8 +287,7 @@ def _parse_parts(cls, parts):
         else:
             raise TypeError(
                 "argument should be a str object or an os.PathLike "
-                "object returning str, not %r"
-                % type(path))
+                f"object where __fspath__ returns a str, not {type(path)!r}")
         if altsep:
             path = path.replace(altsep, sep)
         drv, root, rel = cls._flavour.splitroot(path)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-20-32.gh-issue-101362.Jlk6mt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-02-07-22-20-32.gh-issue-101362.Jlk6mt.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 Speed up :class:`pathlib.PurePath` construction by handling arguments more
-uniformly. When a path argument is supplied, we use its string
-representation rather than joining its parts with :func:`os.path.join`.
+uniformly. When a :class:`pathlib.Path argument is supplied,
+we use its string representation rather than joining its parts
+with :func:`os.path.join`.