[issue46720] Add support of path-like objects to multiprocessing.set_executable for Windows to match Unix-like systems

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[issue46720] Add support of path-like objects to multiprocessing.set_executable for Windows to match Unix-like systems

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[issue46720] Add support of path-like objects to multiprocessing.set_executable for Windows to match Unix-like systems

New submission from Géry : Any [path-like object](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html) can be passed to `multiprocessing.set_executable`, i.e. objects with `str`, `bytes`, or `os.PathLike` type. For instance these work (tested on MacOS with all start methods: ‘spawn’, ‘fork’, and