#### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
In Python API, we have the same issue. Thanks for identifying this issue, zsxwing ! Below is an example:
```Python
spark.read.format('json').load('python/test_support/sql/people.json')
```
#### How was this patch tested?
Existing test cases cover the changes by this PR

Author: gatorsmile <gatorsmile@gmail.com>

Closes #13965 from gatorsmile/optionPaths.