reports: support any PathLike instead of only Path, py.path

The goal is to avoid referring to the legacy py.path.

src/_pytest/reports.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+import os
 from io import StringIO
-from pathlib import Path
 from pprint import pprint
 from typing import Any
 from typing import cast
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ from _pytest._code.code import ReprTraceback
 from _pytest._code.code import TerminalRepr
 from _pytest._io import TerminalWriter
 from _pytest.compat import final
-from _pytest.compat import LEGACY_PATH
 from _pytest.config import Config
 from _pytest.nodes import Collector
 from _pytest.nodes import Item
@@ -500,8 +499,8 @@ def _report_to_json(report: BaseReport) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     else:
         d["longrepr"] = report.longrepr
     for name in d:
-        if isinstance(d[name], (LEGACY_PATH, Path)):
+        if isinstance(d[name], os.PathLike):
-            d[name] = str(d[name])
+            d[name] = os.fspath(d[name])
         elif name == "result":
             d[name] = None  # for now
     return d

testing/test_reports.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ from typing import Union
 import pytest
 from _pytest._code.code import ExceptionChainRepr
 from _pytest._code.code import ExceptionRepr
-from _pytest.compat import legacy_path
 from _pytest.config import Config
 from _pytest.pytester import Pytester
 from _pytest.reports import CollectReport
@@ -225,18 +224,26 @@ class TestReportSerialization:
                 assert newrep.longrepr == str(rep.longrepr)
 
     def test_paths_support(self, pytester: Pytester) -> None:
-        """Report attributes which are py.path or pathlib objects should become strings."""
+        """Report attributes which are path-like should become strings."""
         pytester.makepyfile(
             """
             def test_a():
                 assert False
         """
         )
+
+        class MyPathLike:
+            def __init__(self, path: str) -> None:
+                self.path = path
+
+            def __fspath__(self) -> str:
+                return self.path
+
         reprec = pytester.inline_run()
         reports = reprec.getreports("pytest_runtest_logreport")
         assert len(reports) == 3
         test_a_call = reports[1]
-        test_a_call.path1 = legacy_path(pytester.path)  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        test_a_call.path1 = MyPathLike(str(pytester.path))  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
         test_a_call.path2 = pytester.path  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
         data = test_a_call._to_json()
         assert data["path1"] == str(pytester.path)