Evgeny Kapun added the comment: Mostly for consistency with other functions. Also, this provides an easy way to walk a directory tree recursively: just call listdir on every member, and if it doesn't raise OSError, that member must be a directory. With follow_symlinks=False, this method wouldn't follow symlinks, unlike os.walk and os.fwalk, which always follow symlinks at least to differentiate between symlinks to directories and other symlinks.
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