Error converting to PDF when outputfile is a pathlib.Path object
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kencx commented
When trying to convert a file to PDF, passing a pathlib.Path
object in the outputfile
argument causes a TypeError:
>>> pypandoc.convert_file("README.md", to="pdf", outputfile=Path("test.pdf"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pypandoc/__init__.py", line 168, in convert_file
return _convert_input(discovered_source_files, format, 'path', to, extra_args=extra_args,
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pypandoc/__init__.py", line 328, in _convert_input
format, to = _validate_formats(format, to, outputfile)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pypandoc/__init__.py", line 306, in _validate_formats
if outputfile[-4:] != ".pdf":
TypeError: 'PosixPath' object is not subscriptable
because the _validate_formats
function assumes outputfile
is always a string.