compile_file's stripdir does not accept pathlib.Path

[hauntsaninja]

BPO	40447
Nosy	@tirkarthi, @FFY00, @hauntsaninja
PRs	bpo-40447: accept all path-like objects in compileall.compile_file #19883

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created_at = <Date 2020-04-30.06:18:15.892>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library', '3.9']
title = "compile_file's stripdir does not accept pathlib.Path"
updated_at = <Date 2020-05-03.12:55:07.004>
user = 'https://github.com/hauntsaninja'

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type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue40447'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

[hauntsaninja]

Python 3.9 added the stripdir argument to compileall functions. From https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/compileall.html#compileall.compile_file:

The stripdir, prependdir and limit_sl_dest arguments correspond to the -s, -p and -e options described above. They may be specified as str, bytes or os.PathLike.

~ λ python3.9
Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master:360371f, Apr 29 2020, 15:44:56) 
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import compileall, pathlib
>>> compileall.compile_file(pathlib.Path("tmp/test.py"), stripdir=pathlib.Path("tmp"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/shantanu/.pyenv/versions/3.9-dev/lib/python3.9/compileall.py", line 161, in compile_file
    stripdir_parts = stripdir.split(os.path.sep)
AttributeError: 'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'split'

Found by Jelle Zijlstra in python/typeshed#3956 (comment)

[hauntsaninja]

If it helps triage, this is the BPO for where the changes to compileall were made: https://bugs.python.org/issue38112