From 2c35bae5e74b39d0ec7fa6dd1fa8d1866eaa7246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Povel <git@alexpovel.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 17:22:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] TYP: loosen types of to_markdown, align to docs

Docs already allowed pathlib.Path objects and such
code runs, but failed mypy typechecks. This fixes it.
---
 pandas/core/frame.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index b7974e5764100..e23c735fe41df 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 import itertools
 from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import (
-    IO,
     TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
     Callable,
@@ -2717,7 +2716,7 @@ def to_feather(self, path: FilePath | WriteBuffer[bytes], **kwargs) -> None:
     )
     def to_markdown(
         self,
-        buf: IO[str] | str | None = None,
+        buf: FilePath | WriteBuffer[str] | None = None,
         mode: str = "wt",
         index: bool = True,
         storage_options: StorageOptions = None,