Nick Coghlan added the comment: Why should it trip the PEP 3115 namespace preparation exception? We only check for __prepare__ (and hence need to do an early most-derived metaclass resolution) on instances of "type", not on arbitrary callables used as a metaclass hint
The checks are different in the two places because the rules are different in the two places. (One case that *can* be made is that we should be throwing different exceptions or chaining them to show which metaclass resolution failed, rather than re-using the same message in both places). This means that when you define a non-type metaclass hint, you're bypassing *all* of the PEP 3115 machinery, including the early metaclass resolution. However, if your metaclass hint still creates a type instance, you're not bypassing tp_new. If you're asking "Where is the bug in the presented example code?", it's here, in the definition of your metaclass hint: def metaclass_callable(name, bases, namespace): return OtherMetaclass(name, bases, namespace) Instantiating instances of "type" directly in Python 3 bypasses the PEP 3115 machinery - that's the entire reason that types.new_class was added. So if you want that metaclass hint to be PEP 3115 compliant, you need to explicitly write it that way: def metaclass_callable(name, bases, namespace): return types.new_class(name, bases, dict(metaclass=OtherMetaclass) ---------- resolution: not a bug -> stage: resolved -> status: closed -> open title: Class definition is not consistent with types.new_class -> Documentation for handling of non-type metaclass hints is unclear _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28437> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com