From 8298971836005486f50337e761fae8627a069084 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dobatymo <Dobatymo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:06:41 +0800
Subject: only convert input to str if necessary

---
 natsort/natsort.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/natsort/natsort.py b/natsort/natsort.py
index 2038f3e..3904ec5 100644
--- a/natsort/natsort.py
+++ b/natsort/natsort.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The majority of the "work" is defined in utils.py.
 import platform
 from functools import partial
 from operator import itemgetter
+from pathlib import PurePath
 from typing import (
     Any,
     Callable,
@@ -669,7 +670,9 @@ def _split_apply(
 ) -> Iterator[str]:
     if key is not None:
         v = key(v)
-    return utils.path_splitter(str(v))
+    if not isinstance(v, (str, PurePath)):
+        v = str(v)
+    return utils.path_splitter(v)
 
 
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