gh-85809: Ensure shutil.make_archive accepts path-like objects in all cases #143668
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Support for path-like objects such as `Pathlib.path` in `shutil.make_archive`. The change ensures path-like support for all parameters regardless of input. Added lightweight tests and updated documentation including examples.
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This change ensures
shutil.make_archiveaccepts path-like objects such asPathlib.pathfor all parameters regardless of input. Includes lightweight tests and updated documentation with refreshed examples.While
shutil.make_archivedid supportPathlib.pathinputs in some cases, this behavior was undocumented, untested and resulted in an exception ifroot_dirwasNone. This case is well described in #94844 (comment).This PR addresses the above issue following this suggested approach.
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