diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8fa900e16..0fbad4fe2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 - #733 skip directories with perm error when building autoimport index (@MrBago)
 - #722, #723 Remove site-packages from packages search tree (@tkrabel)
+- #738 Implement os.PathLike on Resource (@lieryan)
 
 # Release 1.11.0
 
diff --git a/rope/base/resources.py b/rope/base/resources.py
index eaf194857..b284ba9f1 100644
--- a/rope/base/resources.py
+++ b/rope/base/resources.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from rope.base import change, exceptions, fscommands
 
 
-class Resource:
+class Resource(os.PathLike):
     """Represents files and folders in a project"""
 
     def __init__(self, project, path):
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ def __repr__(self):
             hex(id(self)),
         )
 
+    def __fspath__(self) -> str:
+        """Return the file system path of this resource"""
+        return self.project._get_resource_path(self.path)
+
     def move(self, new_location):
         """Move resource to `new_location`"""
         self._perform_change(
@@ -60,14 +64,17 @@ def remove(self):
         """Remove resource from the project"""
         self._perform_change(change.RemoveResource(self), "Removing <%s>" % self.path)
 
+    def is_dir(self):
+        """Alias for `is_folder()`"""
+
     def is_folder(self):
-        """Return true if the resource is a folder"""
+        """Return True if the resource is a Folder"""
 
     def create(self):
         """Create this resource"""
 
     def exists(self):
-        return os.path.exists(self.real_path)
+        return os.path.exists(self)
 
     @property
     def parent(self):
@@ -75,7 +82,7 @@ def parent(self):
         return self.project.get_folder(parent)
 
     @property
-    def path(self):
+    def path(self) -> str:
         """Return the path of this resource relative to the project root
 
         The path is the list of parent directories separated by '/' followed
@@ -84,19 +91,18 @@ def path(self):
         return self._path
 
     @property
-    def name(self):
+    def name(self) -> str:
         """Return the name of this resource"""
         return self.path.split("/")[-1]
 
     @property
-    def real_path(self):
-        """Return the file system path of this resource"""
-        return self.project._get_resource_path(self.path)
+    def real_path(self) -> str:
+        return os.fspath(self)
 
     @property
-    def pathlib(self):
+    def pathlib(self) -> Path:
         """Return the file as a pathlib path."""
-        return Path(self.real_path)
+        return Path(self)
 
     def __eq__(self, obj):
         return self.__class__ == obj.__class__ and self.path == obj.path
@@ -135,7 +141,7 @@ def read_bytes(self):
                 DeprecationWarning,
                 stacklevel=2,
             )
-            with open(self.real_path, "rb") as handle:
+            with open(self, "rb") as handle:
                 return handle.read()
         return self.project.fscommands.read(self.real_path)
 
@@ -165,7 +171,7 @@ def is_folder(self):
     def get_children(self):
         """Return the children of this folder"""
         try:
-            children = os.listdir(self.real_path)
+            children = os.listdir(self)
         except OSError:
             return []
         result = []
diff --git a/rope/contrib/autoimport/sqlite.py b/rope/contrib/autoimport/sqlite.py
index 1755f2f2b..563cebd63 100644
--- a/rope/contrib/autoimport/sqlite.py
+++ b/rope/contrib/autoimport/sqlite.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def __init__(
                 autoimport = AutoImport(..., memory=True)
         """
         self.project = project
-        project_package = get_package_tuple(Path(project.root.real_path), project)
+        project_package = get_package_tuple(project.root.pathlib, project)
         assert project_package is not None
         assert project_package.path is not None
         self.project_package = project_package
@@ -175,9 +175,7 @@ def calculate_project_hash(data: str) -> str:
                 f"file:rope-{project_hash}:?mode=memory&cache=shared", uri=True
             )
         else:
-            return sqlite3.connect(
-                str(Path(project.ropefolder.real_path) / "autoimport.db")
-            )
+            return sqlite3.connect(project.ropefolder.pathlib / "autoimport.db")
 
     @property
     def connection(self):
@@ -627,7 +625,7 @@ def _resource_to_module(
     ) -> ModuleFile:
         assert self.project_package.path
         underlined = underlined if underlined else self.underlined
-        resource_path: Path = Path(resource.real_path)
+        resource_path: Path = resource.pathlib
         # The project doesn't need its name added to the path,
         # since the standard python file layout accounts for that
         # so we set add_package_name to False
diff --git a/ropetest/projecttest.py b/ropetest/projecttest.py
index 2efa25183..151384518 100644
--- a/ropetest/projecttest.py
+++ b/ropetest/projecttest.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from rope.base.libutils import path_to_resource
 from rope.base.project import NoProject, Project, _realpath
 from rope.base.resourceobserver import FilteredResourceObserver
+from rope.base.resources import File, Folder
 from ropetest import testutils
 
 
@@ -610,6 +611,18 @@ def test_multi_source_folders2(self):
         self.assertEqual(2, len(source_folders))
         self.assertTrue(self.project.root in source_folders and src in source_folders)
 
+    def test_folder_is_pathlike(self):
+        resource = self.project.root.create_folder("src")
+        self.assertIsInstance(resource, Folder)
+
+        self.assertIsInstance(os.fspath(resource), str)
+
+    def test_file_is_pathlike(self):
+        resource = self.project.root.create_file("mod.py")
+        self.assertIsInstance(resource, File)
+
+        self.assertIsInstance(os.fspath(resource), str)
+
 
 class ResourceObserverTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):