Issue #22570: Add 'path' attribute to pathlib.Path objects. (Merge 3.5->3.6)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index d03aededa4..a1e0a822d2 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -690,6 +690,13 @@ class PurePath(object):
                                                   self._parts) or '.'
             return self._str
 
+    @property
+    def path(self):
+        try:
+            return self._str
+        except AttributeError:
+            return str(self)
+
     def as_posix(self):
         """Return the string representation of the path with forward (/)
         slashes."""