diff --git a/build_wheels.py b/build_wheels.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 9ad90e1..1343a76
--- a/build_wheels.py
+++ b/build_wheels.py
@@ -1,23 +1,20 @@
-import os
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+import subprocess
 import shutil
 
-architectures = dict(darwin=['64bit'],
-                     win32=['32bit', '64bit'],
-                     noplatform='noarch')
+def make_dist(platform, arch, dist):
+    print("removing 'SoundFile.egg-info' (and everything under it)")
+    shutil.rmtree('SoundFile.egg-info', ignore_errors=True)
+    subprocess.run([sys.executable, 'setup.py', 'clean', '--all'])
+    subprocess.run([sys.executable, 'setup.py', dist], env={
+        'PYSOUNDFILE_PLATFORM': platform,
+        'PYSOUNDFILE_ARCHITECTURE': arch
+    })
 
-def cleanup():
-    shutil.rmtree('build', ignore_errors=True)
-    try:
-        os.remove('_soundfile.py')
-    except:
-        pass
-
-for platform, archs in architectures.items():
-    os.environ['PYSOUNDFILE_PLATFORM'] = platform
-    for arch in archs:
-        os.environ['PYSOUNDFILE_ARCHITECTURE'] = arch
-        cleanup()
-        os.system('python setup.py bdist_wheel')
-
-cleanup()
-os.system('python setup.py sdist')
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    make_dist('darwin', '64bit', 'bdist_wheel')
+    make_dist('win32', '32bit', 'bdist_wheel')
+    make_dist('win32', '64bit', 'bdist_wheel')
+    make_dist('', '', 'bdist_wheel')
+    make_dist('', '', 'sdist')
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ee55881..55a75b4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
 import sys
 
+for line in open('soundfile.py'):
+    if line.startswith('__version__'):
+        exec(line)
+        break
+else:
+    raise RuntimeError('No version number found')
+
 PYTHON_INTERPRETERS = '.'.join([
     'cp26', 'cp27',
     'cp32', 'cp33', 'cp34', 'cp35', 'cp36',
@@ -87,7 +94,7 @@ def get_tag(self):
 
 setup(
     name='SoundFile',
-    version='0.10.1',
+    version=__version__,
     description='An audio library based on libsndfile, CFFI and NumPy',
     author='Bastian Bechtold',
     author_email='basti@bastibe.de',
diff --git a/soundfile.py b/soundfile.py
index b19c38e..a4229ce 100644
--- a/soundfile.py
+++ b/soundfile.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 For further information, see http://pysoundfile.readthedocs.org/.
 
 """
-__version__ = "0.10.0"
+__version__ = "0.10.2"
 
 import os as _os
 import sys as _sys
@@ -614,6 +614,9 @@ def __init__(self, file, mode='r', samplerate=None, channels=None,
         >>> assert myfile.closed
 
         """
+        # resolve PathLike objects (see PEP519 for details):
+        # can be replaced with _os.fspath(file) for Python >= 3.6
+        file = file.__fspath__() if hasattr(file, '__fspath__') else file
         self._name = file
         if mode is None:
             mode = getattr(file, 'mode', None)
diff --git a/tests/test_pysoundfile.py b/tests/test_pysoundfile.py
index 7c1ed6e..e1c200a 100644
--- a/tests/test_pysoundfile.py
+++ b/tests/test_pysoundfile.py
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@
 filename_new = 'tests/delme.please'
 
 
-open_variants = 'name', 'fd', 'obj'
-
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 6):
+    import pathlib
+    open_variants = 'name', 'fd', 'obj', 'pathlib'
+else:
+    open_variants = 'name', 'fd', 'obj'
 
 xfail_from_buffer = pytest.mark.xfail(cffi.__version_info__ < (0, 9),
                                       reason="from_buffer() since CFFI 0.9")
@@ -31,6 +34,8 @@
 def _file_existing(request, filename, fdarg, objarg=None):
     if request.param == 'name':
         return filename
+    if request.param == 'pathlib':
+        return pathlib.Path(filename)
     elif request.param == 'fd':
         fd = os.open(filename, fdarg)
 
@@ -660,7 +665,8 @@ def test_seek_in_rplus_mode(sf_stereo_rplus):
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("use_default", [True, False])
 def test_truncate(file_stereo_rplus, use_default):
-    if isinstance(file_stereo_rplus, (str, int)):
+    if (isinstance(file_stereo_rplus, (str, int))
+            or hasattr(file_stereo_rplus, '__fspath__')):
         with sf.SoundFile(file_stereo_rplus, 'r+', closefd=False) as f:
             if use_default:
                 f.seek(2)