[artifact.py] make sure locations are always pathlib.Path objects

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/allocbench/artifact.py b/allocbench/artifact.py
index e3126a7..83533d3 100644
--- a/allocbench/artifact.py
+++ b/allocbench/artifact.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Both flavours are version controlled archive with a checksum and git repositorie
 with a specific checkout.
 """
 
+from pathlib import Path
 from subprocess import CalledProcessError
 
 from allocbench.directories import get_allocbench_base_dir
@@ -67,6 +68,9 @@ class GitArtifact(Artifact):
         if not location:
             location = self.basedir / checkout
 
+        # make sure location is a pathlib Path object
+        location = Path(location)
+
         # check if we have already provided this checkout
         if location.exists():
             try:
@@ -151,6 +155,9 @@ class ArchiveArtifact(Artifact):
         if not location:
             location = self.basedir / "content"
 
+        # make sure location is a pathlib Path object
+        location = Path(location)
+
         # Check if we already provided the archive at location
         if location.exists():
             return location