Add comments closes pandas-dev#37705

Author: inspurwusixuan

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst

@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :class:`HDFStore` was dropping timezone information when exporting :class:`Series` with ``datetime64[ns, tz]`` dtypes with a fixed HDF5 store (:issue:`20594`)
 - :func:`read_csv` was closing user-provided binary file handles when ``engine="c"`` and an ``encoding`` was requested (:issue:`36980`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_hdf` was not dropping missing rows with ``dropna=True`` (:issue:`35719`)
-- Bug in :func:`read_html` when parsing ``pathlib.Path`` object as html path (:issue:`37705`)
+- Bug in :func:`read_html` caused a ``TypeError`` when parsing ``pathlib.Path`` as html path since it was not converted to string  (:issue:`37705`)
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^

pandas/tests/io/test_html.py

@@ -1236,6 +1236,11 @@ def run(self):
         assert None is helper_thread1.err is helper_thread2.err
 
     def test_parse_Path_object(self):
+        """
+        read_html should be able to cope with Path
+
+        GH 37705
+        """
         file_path_string = r"pandas/tests/io/data/html/spam.html"
         file_path = Path(file_path_string)
         df1 = self.read_html(file_path_string)[0]