code: def _stringify_path(filepath_or_buffer):
      """Attempt to convert a path-like object to a string.
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      filepath_or_buffer : object to be converted
  
      Returns
      -------
      str_filepath_or_buffer : maybe a string version of the object
  
      Notes
      -----
      Objects supporting the fspath protocol (python 3.6+) are coerced
      according to its __fspath__ method.
  
      For backwards compatibility with older pythons, pathlib.Path and
      py.path objects are specially coerced.
  
      Any other object is passed through unchanged, which includes bytes,
      strings, buffers, or anything else that's not even path-like.
      """
      try:
          import pathlib
  
          _PATHLIB_INSTALLED = True
      except ImportError:
          _PATHLIB_INSTALLED = False
  
      try:
          from py.path import local as LocalPath
  
          _PY_PATH_INSTALLED = True
      except ImportError:
          _PY_PATH_INSTALLED = False
  
      if hasattr(filepath_or_buffer, "__fspath__"):
          return filepath_or_buffer.__fspath__()
      if _PATHLIB_INSTALLED and isinstance(
          filepath_or_buffer, pathlib.Path
      ):
          return text_type(filepath_or_buffer)
      if _PY_PATH_INSTALLED and isinstance(
          filepath_or_buffer, LocalPath
      ):
          return filepath_or_buffer.strpath
      return _expand_user(filepath_or_buffer)
  
imports: import codecs
  from contextlib import closing, contextmanager
  import csv
  import mmap
  import os
  import zipfile
  import pandas.compat
  from pandas.compat import BytesIO, StringIO, string_types, text_type
  from pandas.errors import AbstractMethodError, DtypeWarning, EmptyDataError, ParserError, ParserWarning
  from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_file_like, is_number
  from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
label_desc: Use image node_id 4 for calling a global function with example usage: _stringify_path(filepath_or_buffer) and returns: _expand_user, filepath_or_buffer, text_type, filepath_or_buffer