Josh Haberman <haber...@google.com> added the comment:
I found a way to use metaclasses with the limited API.
I found that I can access PyType_Type.tp_new by creating a heap type derived
from PyType_Type:
static PyType_Slot dummy_slots[] = {
{0, NULL}
};
static PyType_Spec dummy_spec = {
"module.DummyClass", 0, 0, Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT, dummy_slots,
};
PyObject *bases = Py_BuildValue("(O)", &PyType_Type);
PyObject *type = PyType_FromSpecWithBases(&dummy_spec, bases);
Py_DECREF(bases);
type_new = PyType_GetSlot((PyTypeObject*)type, Py_tp_new);
Py_DECREF(type);
#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
assert(type_new == PyType_Type.tp_new);
#endif
// Creates a type using a metaclass.
PyObject *uses_metaclass = type_new(metaclass, args, NULL);
PyType_GetSlot() can't be used on PyType_Type directly, since it is not a heap
type. But a heap type derived from PyType_Type will inherit tp_new, and we can
call PyType_GetSlot() on that.
Once we have PyType_Type.tp_new, we can use it to create a new type using a
metaclass. This avoids any of the class-switching tricks I was trying before.
We can also get other slots of PyType_Type like tp_getattro to do the
equivalent of super().
The PyType_FromSpecEx() function proposed in this bug would still be a nicer
solution to my problem. Calling type_new() doesn't let you specify object size
or slots. To work around this, I derive from a type I created with
PyType_FromSpec(), relying on the fact that the size and slots will be
inherited. This works, but it introduces an extra class into the hierarchy
that ideally could be avoided.
But I do have a workaround that appears to work, and avoids the problems
associated with setting ob_type directly (like PyPy incompatibility).
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