.save to accept PosixPath plz?

[frankrolf]

I really love pathLib – which allows a notation like this:

project_dir = Path('/Users/fg/my_favorite_font/')
ufos = project_dir.rglob('*.ufo')
# blah blah blah
target.save(project_dir / 'font.ufo')

Unfortunately, fontParts does not expect a PosixPath:

  File "<untitled>", line 59, in <module>
  File "lib/fontObjects/fontPartsWrappers.pyc", line 1735, in save
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.12/fontParts/base/font.py", line 203, in save
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.12/fontParts/base/normalizers.py", line 961, in normalizeFilePath
TypeError: File paths must be strings, not PosixPath.

It would be amazing if this were possible :-)

[benkiel]

PR?

[knutnergaard]

smufolib supports this. I can update the normalizer to accommodate it.

[benkiel]

That would be great!

[frankrolf]

Thank you @knutnergaard 🥳

[knutnergaard]

@benkiel Consider it done. Do you want relative paths to resolve automatically?

[benkiel]

I think that would be great if easy

[knutnergaard]

PR is #784.

[benkiel]

Closing as done in the v1 branch. Sorry @frankrolf you'll have to wait a bit for it to hit release

[frankrolf]

No worries about that! I just figured it would be a nice addition – thanks for doing the work @knutnergaard ! :-)