error of collectstatic for AttributeError: 'Path' object has no attribute 'startswith' about django-environ HOT 6 CLOSED

I'm not super familiar with this package and why it has its own pathlib-alike (guessing it pre-dates py3?), but I think I'd suggest removing it since it appears to have bugs and (probably?) isn't necessary anymore. Instead, we could pretty easily, I think, migrate people to pathlib in their settings, though that'd be a backwards incompatible change.

This is on my plans, but right now I don't have enough time for that. I'll try to return to this topic a bit later

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I ran into this bug too. I haven't read all of environ's source code, but for us this happened because we had a setting configured using env.Path, and then we had it overridden in a django test via a decorator, like so:

@override_settings(
    MEDIA_ROOT=os.path.join(settings.INSTALL_ROOT, "cl/assets/media/test/")
)

Something about that combination made the built in env.path thing try to compare one of its Path objects with a str, which failed, as in the first comment.

The solution, which you can see here was to not use environ's path objects, and instead rely on pathlib.

I'm not super familiar with this package and why it has its own pathlib-alike (guessing it pre-dates py3?), but I think I'd suggest removing it since it appears to have bugs and (probably?) isn't necessary anymore. Instead, we could pretty easily, I think, migrate people to pathlib in their settings, though that'd be a backwards incompatible change.

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I solved this problem by str(root.path('path')) instead of root.path('path').root

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I think you still use path the wrong way.
You should use like this:

STATIC_ROOT = root('collected_static')

but not

STATIC_ROOT = root.path('collected_static')

When you need a str object, you should use root('sub path'), when you wanta a Path object to chain it, you should use root.path('sub path')

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wow!

Thanks for your reply.

You are correct.

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