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-TerminalReporter's ``_locationline()`` will now pass the correct type of input arg to  ``_pytest.pathlib.bestrelpath``. Previously it was passing in ``str`` which raised an exception.
+Fix `pytest -vv` crashing with an internal exception `AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'relative_to'` in some cases.