diff --git a/cocluto/SimpaDbUtil.py b/cocluto/SimpaDbUtil.py
index d5f11c5..c3772db 100644
--- a/cocluto/SimpaDbUtil.py
+++ b/cocluto/SimpaDbUtil.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class SqlFile(ISqlDatabaseBackend):
         # If set False, the returned connection may be shared across multiple threads. When using multiple threads with the same connection writing operations should be serialized by the user to avoid data corruption
         # I hope it's safe here but I'm not 100% sure though. Anyway, if the database gets corrupt, it not a big deal since this memory resident database gets reconstructed from the sql file...
         self._con = sqlite3.connect(sqlite_db_path, check_same_thread=check_same_thread)
-        with open(self._sql_file_path, 'r') as f:
+        with open(str(self._sql_file_path), 'r') as f:  # str conversion has been added to support older versions of python in which open don't accept arguments of type Path
             sql = f.read()  # watch out for built-in `str`
         # print(sql)
         self._cur = self._con.cursor()