Why isn't Pathlib supported yet?

[yashsandansing]

Trying to do

s3fs.open('bucket/file.ext') as fp

apparently gives a

attempt to load non key-like path

error, which apparently happened because the library was passing a Path instead of a string

Most libraries now use Path objects instead of str and finding out such an error is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Why not implement Path supported operations in s3fs itself instead of expecting everyone using it to add additional functionalities to change it to str?

[martindurant]

As the documentation for Path makes clear, it is intended to be used with local paths only. If you apply them to remote storage, you often have to worry about the specifics of windows versus posix, making like complicated (fsspec/filesystem_spec#1574 with exactly this problem). May I suggest you use universal_pathlib ( https://github.com/fsspec/universal_pathlib ) if you really require Path-like functionality.

which apparently happened because the library was passing a Path instead of a string

The cannot have read the docstring.

        Parameters
        ----------
        path: str
            Target file
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