[issue34541] pathlib.Path.iterdir doesn't throw an exception until you start iterating

[Paul Pinterits]

Paul Pinterits <rawing7 at gmail.com> added the comment:

As an afterthought, I'd like to suggest an alternative solution: If changing the `iterdir` behavior is not possible or not desirable for some reason, please add a `Path.listdir` method that returns a list instead of an iterator. Lazy file system operations can often introduce unnecessary race conditions in the code, so I believe it would be very useful if every lazy method had an eager equivalent.

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