Fixed #33866 -- Added pathlib.Path support to GDALRaster constructor.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt
index d5dba8677e..75915e6751 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt
@@ -1107,9 +1107,10 @@ blue.
     raster should be opened in write mode. For newly-created rasters, the second
     parameter is ignored and the new raster is always created in write mode.
 
-    The first parameter can take three forms: a string representing a file path
-    (filesystem or GDAL virtual filesystem), a dictionary with values defining
-    a new raster, or a bytes object representing a raster file.
+    The first parameter can take three forms: a string or
+    :class:`~pathlib.Path` representing a file path (filesystem or GDAL virtual
+    filesystem), a dictionary with values defining a new raster, or a bytes
+    object representing a raster file.
 
     If the input is a file path, the raster is opened from there. If the input
     is raw data in a dictionary, the parameters ``width``, ``height``, and
@@ -1160,6 +1161,10 @@ blue.
         >>> rst.name  # Stored in a random path in the vsimem filesystem.
         '/vsimem/da300bdb-129d-49a8-b336-e410a9428dad'
 
+    .. versionchanged:: 4.2
+
+        Support for :class:`pathlib.Path` ``ds_input`` was added.
+
     .. attribute:: name
 
         The name of the source which is equivalent to the input file path or the name
diff --git a/docs/releases/4.2.txt b/docs/releases/4.2.txt
index 1d55ea2f68..ad061857bf 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.2.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Minor features
   ``id`` key for serialized features, which defaults to the primary key of
   objects.
 
+* The :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.GDALRaster` class now supports
+  :class:`pathlib.Path`.
+
 :mod:`django.contrib.messages`
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