Python 3.9 added the stripdir argument to compileall functions. From https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/compileall.html#compileall.compile_file: > The stripdir, prependdir and limit_sl_dest arguments correspond to the -s, -p and -e options described above. They may be specified as str, bytes or os.PathLike. ``` ~ λ python3.9 Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master:360371f, Apr 29 2020, 15:44:56) [Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import compileall, pathlib >>> compileall.compile_file(pathlib.Path("tmp/test.py"), stripdir=pathlib.Path("tmp")) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/shantanu/.pyenv/versions/3.9-dev/lib/python3.9/compileall.py", line 161, in compile_file stripdir_parts = stripdir.split(os.path.sep) AttributeError: 'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'split' ``` Found by Jelle Zijlstra in https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/3956#discussion_r417735663