sqlite3.connect() should accept PathLike objects

[AllenLi]

BPO	31843
Nosy	@vstinner, @Phaqui
PRs	bpo-31843: sqlite3.connect() now accepts PathLike objects as database name #4299

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title = 'sqlite3.connect() should accept PathLike objects'
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[AllenLi]

sqlite3.connect() should accept PathLike objects (objects that implement __fspath__)

[phaqui]

Had my first go at a python patch. Added a test case for it, and all tests
passing when I test with

./python -bb -E -Wd -m test -v test.test_sqlite -r -w -uall -R 3:2

[vstinner]

New changeset a22a127 by Victor Stinner (Anders Lorentsen) in branch 'master':
bpo-31843: sqlite3.connect() now accepts PathLike objects as database name (bpo-4299)
a22a127

[vstinner]

Thank you Allen Li for your feature request.

Thank you very much Anders Lorentsen for addressing all my annoying comments on the pull request, and congratulations for your first contribution to CPython! It's a nice once ;-)