[New-bugs-announce] [issue29581] __init_subclass__ causes TypeError when used with standard library metaclasses (such as ABCMeta)

[Nate Soares]

New submission from Nate Soares:

I believe I've found a bug (or, at least, critical shortcoming) in the way that python 3.6's __init_subclass__ interacts with abc.ABCMeta (and, presumably, most other metaclasses in the standard library). In short, if a class subclasses both an abstract class and a class-that-uses-__init_subclass__, and the __init_subclass__ uses keyword arguments, then this will often lead to TypeErrors (because the  metaclass gets confused by the keyword arguments to __new__ that were meant for __init_subclass__).

Here's an example of the failure. This code:

from abc import ABCMeta
class Initifier:
    def __init_subclass__(cls, x=None, **kwargs):
        super().__init_subclass__(**kwargs)
        print('got x', x)

class Abstracted(metaclass=ABCMeta):
    pass

class Thingy(Abstracted, Initifier, x=1):
    pass

thingy = Thingy()

raises this TypeError when run:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<filename>", line 10, in <module>
    class Thingy(Abstracted, Initifier, x=1):
TypeError: __new__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'x'

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42281697/typeerror-when-combining-abcmeta-with-init-subclass-in-python-3-6 for further discussion.

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messages: 287966
nosy: Nate Soares
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: __init_subclass__ causes TypeError when used with standard library metaclasses (such as ABCMeta)
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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