I would like to have access to the list of tests in a TestSuite object.
Currently there are two ways of doing this: I can access the protected attribute `_tests`, or I can iterate over the TestSuite and re-create data that I already have. The former option isn't part of the public API and makes mypy mad, and the latter seems redundant. Could we get a public property or getter for the internal test list (or a more appropriate implementation if necessary)?

I don't quite follow what you're after as it sounds the same as calling `list(test_suite)`. Am I missing something or are you just trying to avoid the list creation?

Sorry, I guess some context might be helpful. I'm writing a program that links unittest-based tests with a third-party test tracking/reporting system. Said third-party software has a concept of test suites/cases that doesn't align 1:1 with unittest, so I need to manipulate the unittest objects a bit to get them to connect smoothly.

`list(test_suite)` is a bit clunky for me, since I'm already copying said list in order to do my manipulation. So I end up with expressions like:

```
my_cases = list(my_custom_generator(list(test_suite)))
```

Certainly not the end of the world, and it works just fine, but it's redundant and I need to do it a lot. I realize that `list(iterator)` is an increasingly common idiom in python 3, but I thought I'd throw this usecase out there for your consideration.

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification!

Unfortunately I don't think we will be able to accommodate your feature request. It's duplicating an API to simply save calling list() which is the idiomatic way to convert an iterable into a concrete sequence. And providing direct access to the list would be either unittest.TestCase-specific or all subclasses would then have to start supporting it.