Allow users to provide table names as pathlib.Path objects

casacore/tables/table.py

@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ def __init__(self, tablename, tabledesc=False, nrow=0, readonly=True,
                  _columnnames=[], _datatypes=[],
                  _oper=0, _delete=False):
         """Open or create a table."""
+        import pathlib
+        if isinstance(tablename, pathlib.Path):
+            tablename = str(tablename)
         if _oper == 1:
             # This is the readascii constructor.
             tabname = _remove_prefix(tablename)

casacore/tables/tablehelper.py

@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ def _remove_prefix(name):
     """Strip the possible prefix 'Table: ' from one or more table names."""
     if isinstance(name, str):
         return _do_remove_prefix(name)
-    return [_do_remove_prefix(nm) for nm in name]
+    elif hasattr(name, "__iter__"):
+        return [_do_remove_prefix(nm) for nm in name]
+    return name
 
 
 def _check_index(key, name):

tests/test_table.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Tests for tables module."""
+import pathlib
 import unittest
 from casacore.tables import (makescacoldesc, makearrcoldesc, table,
                              maketabdesc, tableexists, tableiswritable,
@@ -58,6 +59,14 @@ def test_tableinfo(self):
         t.close()
         tabledelete("ttable.py_tmp.tab1")
 
+    def test_path_suppoert(self):
+        """Test table names can be given as Path objects."""
+        c1 = makescacoldesc("col", 0)
+        path = pathlib.Path("ttable.py_tmp.tab1")
+        t = table(path, maketabdesc([c1]), ack=False)
+        t.close()
+        tabledelete(path)
+
     def test_tableascii(self):
         """Testing ASCII table."""
         c1 = makescacoldesc("coli", 0)