This is about zipfile.Path. The doc says it is compatible to pathlib.Path. But it seems that is not for 100% because it doesn't derive from pathlib.PurePath and can treated as Path-like in all situations.

I was redirected from pandas where I opened an issue about the fact that pandas.read_excel() does accept path-like objects but not zipfile.Path. It was explained to me that zipfile.Path doesn't implement __fspath__ and that is the problem.

Linked PRs

• GH-99818: improve the documentation for zipfile.Path and Traversable #101589
• [3.11] GH-99818: improve the documentation for zipfile.Path and Traversable (GH-101589) #102266
• [3.10] GH-99818: improve the documentation for zipfile.Path and Traversable (GH-101589) #102267