From 4d552aa6c22974919e2d05c0e59092094ef95928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: barneygale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:53:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] GH-78722: Raise exceptions from `pathlib.Path.iterdir()`
 without delay.

`pathlib.Path.iterdir()` now immediately raises any `OSError`
exception from `os.listdir()`, rather than waiting until its
result is iterated over.
---
 Lib/pathlib.py                                                 | 3 +--
 Lib/test/test_pathlib.py                                       | 2 +-
 .../next/Library/2023-07-26-22-52-48.gh-issue-78722.6SKBLt.rst | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-26-22-52-48.gh-issue-78722.6SKBLt.rst

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index 8ff4d4ea19168f..d61e7e89cb5999 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -1007,8 +1007,7 @@ def iterdir(self):
         The children are yielded in arbitrary order, and the
         special entries '.' and '..' are not included.
         """
-        for name in os.listdir(self):
-            yield self._make_child_relpath(name)
+        return (self._make_child_relpath(name) for name in os.listdir(self))
 
     def _scandir(self):
         # bpo-24132: a future version of pathlib will support subclassing of
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
index 78948e3b720320..5401c7242e98b5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py
@@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ def test_iterdir_nodir(self):
         # __iter__ on something that is not a directory.
         p = self.cls(BASE, 'fileA')
         with self.assertRaises(OSError) as cm:
-            next(p.iterdir())
+            p.iterdir()
         # ENOENT or EINVAL under Windows, ENOTDIR otherwise
         # (see issue #12802).
         self.assertIn(cm.exception.errno, (errno.ENOTDIR,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-26-22-52-48.gh-issue-78722.6SKBLt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-26-22-52-48.gh-issue-78722.6SKBLt.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..aea26ee2f99467
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-26-22-52-48.gh-issue-78722.6SKBLt.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix issue where :meth:`pathlib.Path.iterdir` did not raise :exc:`OSError`
+until iterated.