[New-bugs-announce] [issue41171] Create companion methods of "PyType_FromSpec*" to allow setting metaclass.

[William Pickard]

New submission from William Pickard <lollol222gg at gmail.com>:

The current goal from what I can tell for Python is to have all C based modules move away from static types and instead use "PyType_FromSpec" and the variant that specifies base classes.

The only problem is, PyType_FromSpec and it's variant makes the assumption the caller wants "PyType_Type" as the type's metaclass.

Why not add companion methods to them prefixed with "PyMetaType" and have the "PyType" ones internally invoke these new methods with "PyType_Type" as the metaclass (to keep existing behavior and backwards compatibility)

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components: C API
messages: 372696
nosy: WildCard65
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Create companion methods of "PyType_FromSpec*" to allow setting metaclass.
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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