Add a default __prepare__() method to 'type', so it can be called

using super().  (See recent conversation on python-3000 with Talin
and Phillip Eby about PEP 3115 chaining rules.)

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 3ad5efc..8cf28fc 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -2200,11 +2200,21 @@ type_subclasses(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args_ignored)
 	return list;
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+type_prepare(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
+{
+	return PyDict_New();
+}
+
 static PyMethodDef type_methods[] = {
 	{"mro", (PyCFunction)mro_external, METH_NOARGS,
 	 PyDoc_STR("mro() -> list\nreturn a type's method resolution order")},
 	{"__subclasses__", (PyCFunction)type_subclasses, METH_NOARGS,
 	 PyDoc_STR("__subclasses__() -> list of immediate subclasses")},
+        {"__prepare__", (PyCFunction)type_prepare,
+	 METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS | METH_CLASS,
+         PyDoc_STR("__prepare__() -> dict\n"
+                   "used to create the namespace for the class statement")},
 	{0}
 };