Guido van Rossum added the comment:
I don't see an issue to be fixed here; adding special tests in order to
provide more detailed error messages is rarely a good idea.
Also, PEP 8 has said for years now that modules should *not* be named
the same as classes. Yes, there are a few such modules
Christian Heimes added the comment:
I agree. Python can't stop the developer from doing stupid things. We
could remove Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE from the module type but that could
cause incompatibilities with existing code.
I'm assigning the bug to our beloved dictator to ask for his opinion.
Georg Brandl added the comment:
In 2.5, the message says module.__init__() takes at most 2 arguments (3
given), which is at least a bit more specific.
You get similar errors when deriving from other arbitrary objects, so
I don't know if a special case makes sense here.
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