reader accept Path obj

examples/hist.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ except:
 
 
 fname = "Moench_LGAD_SIM_Nov22/moenchLGAD202211/clustW17new/beam_En800eV_-40deg_300V_10us_d0_f5_0.clust"
-r = ClusterFileReader((base/fname).as_posix())
+r = ClusterFileReader(base/fname)
 hist1 = bh.Histogram(bh.axis.Regular(40, -2, 2**14))
 i = 0
 while (cl:=r.read(100000)).size:

src/ClusterReader.c

@@ -17,22 +17,31 @@ typedef struct {
 static int ClusterFileReader_init(ClusterFileReader *self, PyObject *args,
                                   PyObject *Py_UNUSED(kwds)) {
 
-    // Parse file name
+    // Parse file name, accepts string or pathlike objects
     const char *fname = NULL;
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s", &fname))
+    PyObject* buf;
+    Py_ssize_t len;
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O&", PyUnicode_FSConverter, &buf))
         return -1;
+    PyBytes_AsStringAndSize(buf, &fname, &len);
 
     self->fp = fopen(fname, "rb");
     self->n_left = 0;
 
+    //Keep the return code to not return before releasing buffer
+    int rc = 0;
+
     // Raise python exception using information from errno
     if (self->fp == NULL) {
         PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename(PyExc_OSError, fname);
-        return -1;
+        rc = -1;
     }
+    //Release buffer
+    Py_DECREF(buf)
 
-    // Success
-    return 0;
+    // Success or fail
+    return rc;
 }
 
 // Custom destructor to make sure we close the file

tests/test_ClusterReader.py

@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@ from creader import ClusterFileReader
 from fixtures import data_path
 import numpy as np
 
+def test_open_file_using_Path(data_path):
+    # C extension cannot directly parse pathlib.Path to char *
+    # Check that implementation is working
+    try:
+        fname= data_path/'beam_En700eV_-40deg_300V_10us_d0_f0_100.clust'
+        r = ClusterFileReader(fname)
+        assert r.read(10).size == 10 # Read to make sure file is really open
+        
+    except:
+        pytest.fail("Could not open file using Path object")
+
+def test_open_file_using_str(data_path):
+    # Check that we didn't mess up the string passing
+    try:
+        fname= f'{data_path}/beam_En700eV_-40deg_300V_10us_d0_f0_100.clust'
+        r = ClusterFileReader(fname)
+        assert r.read(10).size == 10 # Read to make sure file is really open
+    except:
+        pytest.fail("Could not open file using string")    
+
 def test_references_on_read(data_path):
     fname= (data_path/'beam_En700eV_-40deg_300V_10us_d0_f0_100.clust').as_posix()
     r = ClusterFileReader(fname)