From 9c2d09e7c6d76af710f45d81caa35ef813c35d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: barneygale <barney.gale@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 02:21:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-46316: optimize `pathlib.Path.iterdir()`

`os.listdir()` doesn't return entries for `.` or `..`, so we don't need to
check for them here.

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.listdir
---
 Lib/pathlib.py                                                 | 3 ---
 .../next/Library/2022-01-09-15-04-56.bpo-46316.AMTyd0.rst      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-09-15-04-56.bpo-46316.AMTyd0.rst

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index f1a33178e2958ba..04b321b9ccf1668 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -1013,9 +1013,6 @@ def iterdir(self):
         result for the special paths '.' and '..'.
         """
         for name in self._accessor.listdir(self):
-            if name in {'.', '..'}:
-                # Yielding a path object for these makes little sense
-                continue
             yield self._make_child_relpath(name)
 
     def glob(self, pattern):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-09-15-04-56.bpo-46316.AMTyd0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-09-15-04-56.bpo-46316.AMTyd0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..09acb77855f15cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-09-15-04-56.bpo-46316.AMTyd0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Optimize :meth:`pathlib.Path.iterdir` by removing an unnecessary check for special entries.