1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/coverage/backward.py b/coverage/backward.py
index 58759545..e051fa55 100644
--- a/coverage/backward.py
+++ b/coverage/backward.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # This file does tricky stuff, so disable a pylint warning.
 # pylint: disable=unused-import
 
+import os
 import sys
 
 from coverage import env
@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     import configparser
 
+try:
+    import toml
+except ImportError:
+    toml = None
+
 # What's a string called?
 try:
     string_class = basestring
@@ -55,6 +61,15 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from threading import get_ident as get_thread_id
 
+try:
+    os.PathLike
+except AttributeError:
+    # This is Python 2 and 3
+    path_types = (bytes, string_class, unicode_class)
+else:
+    # 3.6+
+    path_types = (bytes, str, os.PathLike)
+
 # shlex.quote is new, but there's an undocumented implementation in "pipes",
 # who knew!?
 try: