ctypes does not support fspath protocol

[mrh1997]

BPO	33591
Nosy	@mrh1997
PRs	bpo-33591: Fix CDLL to accept PathLike objects #7032

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labels = ['ctypes', '3.7', '3.8']
title = 'ctypes does not support fspath protocol'
updated_at = <Date 2019-06-10.23:11:51.387>
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[mrh1997]

Passing a non-str path which fulfills the new fspath-protcol (like a Path() object) to CDLL (or WinDLL, PyDLL, ...) a exception is returned.

[mrh1997]

Can anyone do a review?