From dba4ed0d766680a084b02c35692bd2b76448f2ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Zong-han, Xie" <zonghanxie@proton.me>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 21:06:28 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed issue-786

Modified if statement to handle PosixPath instance file name in the same way with
handling string file name.
---
 modmesh/track/dataframe.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modmesh/track/dataframe.py b/modmesh/track/dataframe.py
index e8844012c..a4e29eb85 100644
--- a/modmesh/track/dataframe.py
+++ b/modmesh/track/dataframe.py
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ def read_from_text_file(
         :return: None
         """
 
-        if isinstance(fname, str):
+        import pathlib
+        if isinstance(fname, str) or isinstance(fname, pathlib.PosixPath):
             if not os.path.exists(fname):
                 raise Exception("Text file '{}' does not exist".format(fname))
             fid = open(fname, 'rt')