[Python-Dev] __qualname__ exposed as a local variable: standard?

[Martin Teichmann]

Hi,

so I did quite some research on this topic. And what I found out is
that __qualname__ needs to exist in the namespace. Not necessarily
because it should be used, but because it may be modified.

The story goes as follows: the compiler sets the __qualname__ at the
beginning of the class body. Within the class body, it may be modified
as needed. Then type.__new__ takes it and uses it.

Now one could think that instead of setting the __qualname__ at the
beginning of the class body, we could do so at the end as to not
clutter the namespace, and only if the __qualname__ has been set in
the class body we would use the user-supplied version. But this is
forgetting __prepare__: unfortunately, we have no good way to find out
whether something has been set in a class body, because we have no
guarantee that the object returned by __prepare__ doesn't do something
weird, as autogenerating values for all requested keys.

> To Martin: it would be easier for people (even myself, who implemented
> this super() hack eons ago) to review your patch if you were able to
> explain the current and proposed behavior more precisely.

I tried to give some context on my issue
(http://bugs.python.org/issue23722). Hope that helps.

Greetings

Martin