Support Pathlib #904

Job	Run time
linux-gallery-python3.8-minimum	54s
conda-linux-python3.8-minimum	2m 17s
linux-gallery-python3.12-upgraded	1m 4s
linux-python3.8-minimum	1m 52s
conda-linux-python3.12-upgraded	4m 0s
windows-gallery-python3.8-minimum	1m 40s
linux-python3.12	2m 29s
windows-gallery-python3.12-upgraded	1m 47s
linux-python3.12-upgraded	4m 5s
windows-python3.8-minimum	3m 13s
windows-python3.12-upgraded	4m 15s
macos-python3.8-minimum	2m 54s
macos-python3.12-upgraded	3m 3s
Deploy pre-release from dev	0s
	33m 33s

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