@paul.moore is the original contributor mia? i seem to remember pathlib as once being marked 'provisional', i think it should have stayed that way until this problem was resolved. easy to say i know ;) when i don't have a patch.

@projetmbc yes i found various work-arounds on the web and decided to not use any of them. really i feel this should be fixed as it's a jarring inconsistency with naturally expected behaviour for a class in python.

so i added my report to this as a topic bump because i don't think this should be forgotten about and in case anyone might come up with an idea how to fix it.