diff -r e050ed5da06d Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py	Sun Oct 09 20:18:52 2016 -0700
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py	Tue Oct 11 00:04:32 2016 +0300
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import os
 import io
 from hashlib import md5
 from contextlib import contextmanager
+import pathlib
 
 import unittest
 import unittest.mock
@@ -434,6 +435,22 @@ class MiscReadTestBase(CommonReadTest):
                 self.assertIsInstance(tar.name, bytes)
                 self.assertEqual(tar.name, os.path.abspath(fobj.name))
 
+    def test_pathlike_name(self):
+        tarname = pathlib.Path(self.tarname)
+        with tarfile.open(tarname, mode=self.mode) as tar:
+            self.assertIsInstance(tar.name, str)
+            self.assertEqual(tar.name, os.path.abspath(str(tarname)))
+        with self.taropen(tarname) as tar:
+            self.assertIsInstance(tar.name, str)
+            self.assertEqual(tar.name, os.path.abspath(str(tarname)))
+        with tarfile.TarFile.open(tarname, mode=self.mode) as tar:
+            self.assertIsInstance(tar.name, str)
+            self.assertEqual(tar.name, os.path.abspath(str(tarname)))
+        if self.suffix == '':
+            with tarfile.TarFile(tarname, mode='r') as tar:
+                self.assertIsInstance(tar.name, str)
+                self.assertEqual(tar.name, os.path.abspath(str(tarname)))
+
     def test_illegal_mode_arg(self):
         with open(tmpname, 'wb'):
             pass
@@ -576,6 +593,26 @@ class MiscReadTestBase(CommonReadTest):
         finally:
             support.rmtree(DIR)
 
+    def test_extractall_pathlike_name(self):
+        DIR = pathlib.Path(TEMPDIR) / "extractall"
+        with support.temp_dir(DIR), \
+             tarfile.open(tarname, encoding="iso8859-1") as tar:
+            directories = [t for t in tar if t.isdir()]
+            tar.extractall(DIR, directories)
+            for tarinfo in directories:
+                path = DIR / tarinfo.name
+                self.assertEqual(os.path.getmtime(path), tarinfo.mtime)
+
+    def test_extract_pathlike_name(self):
+        dirtype = "ustar/dirtype"
+        DIR = pathlib.Path(TEMPDIR) / "extractall"
+        with support.temp_dir(DIR), \
+             tarfile.open(tarname, encoding="iso8859-1") as tar:
+            tarinfo = tar.getmember(dirtype)
+            tar.extract(tarinfo, path=DIR)
+            extracted = DIR / dirtype
+            self.assertEqual(os.path.getmtime(extracted), tarinfo.mtime)
+
     def test_init_close_fobj(self):
         # Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile
         # constructor in case of an error. For the test we rely on
@@ -1086,6 +1123,17 @@ class WriteTest(WriteTestBase, unittest.
         finally:
             support.rmdir(path)
 
+    def test_gettarinfo_pathlike_name(self):
+        with tarfile.open(tmpname, self.mode) as tar:
+            path = pathlib.Path(TEMPDIR) / "file"
+            with open(path, "wb") as fobj:
+                fobj.write(b"aaa")
+            tarinfo = tar.gettarinfo(path)
+            tarinfo2 = tar.gettarinfo(str(path))
+            self.assertIsInstance(tarinfo.name, str)
+            self.assertEqual(tarinfo.name, tarinfo2.name)
+            self.assertEqual(tarinfo.size, 3)
+
     @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, "link"),
                          "Missing hardlink implementation")
     def test_link_size(self):
@@ -1522,6 +1570,34 @@ class CreateTest(WriteTestBase, unittest
         self.assertEqual(len(names), 1)
         self.assertIn("spameggs42", names[0])
 
+    def test_create_pathlike_name(self):
+        with tarfile.open(pathlib.Path(tmpname), self.mode) as tobj:
+            self.assertIsInstance(tobj.name, str)
+            self.assertEqual(tobj.name, os.path.abspath(tmpname))
+            tobj.add(pathlib.Path(self.file_path))
+            names = tobj.getnames()
+        self.assertEqual(len(names), 1)
+        self.assertIn('spameggs42', names[0])
+
+        with self.taropen(tmpname) as tobj:
+            names = tobj.getnames()
+        self.assertEqual(len(names), 1)
+        self.assertIn('spameggs42', names[0])
+
+    def test_create_taropen_pathlike_name(self):
+        with self.taropen(pathlib.Path(tmpname), "x") as tobj:
+            self.assertIsInstance(tobj.name, str)
+            self.assertEqual(tobj.name, os.path.abspath(tmpname))
+            tobj.add(pathlib.Path(self.file_path))
+            names = tobj.getnames()
+        self.assertEqual(len(names), 1)
+        self.assertIn('spameggs42', names[0])
+
+        with self.taropen(tmpname) as tobj:
+            names = tobj.getnames()
+        self.assertEqual(len(names), 1)
+        self.assertIn('spameggs42', names[0])
+
 
 class GzipCreateTest(GzipTest, CreateTest):
     pass