Jason R. Coombs

Sorry for the delay in reviewing this. Can you share more about how `pkg_resources` previously supported your use-case?

It's been quite a year, and I'm just now digging deep enough into my emails to follow up on this. Sorry for the delay. I can't recall, but I may...

Another option, now that I think about it, is to simply query for the "pip" "console_scripts": ``` importlib.metadata.entry_points().select(name='pip', group='console_scripts') ``` And not bother filtering by distribution at all, since it's...

Hey Bob. Thanks for that advice. I've confirmed that supplying the `wmi` extra does in fact work around the issue. Unfortunately, it really doesn't get to the root of the...

Another consideration about using WMI - I hadn't realized at the time that the wmi module is based on pywin32, so requires a binary install (non-pure Python), which is non-viable...

Silly me. I just realized this issue probably isn't about a change to the generator expression but a change to pathlib.

Indeed, the generator expression is not relevant: ``` 🐚 py -3.12 -c "import pathlib; pathlib.Path('does-not-exist').iterdir()" 🐚 py -3.13 -c "import pathlib; pathlib.Path('does-not-exist').iterdir()" Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line...

I was even involved in that issue and had completely forgotten. So it was an intentional change, even though it doesn't appear in the "what's new". At the very least,...

I'm so conflicted on this, I can't even advocate for one approach over the other. I'm inclined to say we should raise the issue with a larger group. I do...

Thanks for sharing. That was my instinct too. Let's close this issue. Feel free to comment or re-open should you feel motivated to pursue it.