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Resolution / determining of metaclass docs don't align with what really happens

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I'm not 100% sure if this is an issue with the docs or the interpreter. But it's evident that the docs don't match what the interpreter does.

The docs say here:

The appropriate metaclass for a class definition is determined as follows:

  • if no bases and no explicit metaclass are given, then :func:type is used;
  • if an explicit metaclass is given and it is not an instance of
    :func:type, then it is used directly as the metaclass;
  • if an instance of :func:type is given as the explicit metaclass, or
    bases are defined, then the most derived metaclass is used.

The most derived metaclass is selected from the explicitly specified
metaclass (if any) and the metaclasses (i.e. type(cls)) of all specified
base classes. The most derived metaclass is one which is a subtype of all
of these candidate metaclasses. If none of the candidate metaclasses meets
that criterion, then the class definition will fail with TypeError.

So according to that, the metaclass of D in this code

class M1(type): pass
class M2(type): pass
class Mx(M1, M2): pass

class A1(metaclass=M1): pass
class A2(A1): pass

class B1(metaclass=M2): pass

class C1(metaclass=Mx): pass

class D(A2, B1, C1): pass

should be Mx as it's the most derived of all candidates (M1, M2, Mx). But instead the cpython exitis with

    class D(A2, B1, C1): pass
TypeError: metaclass conflict: the metaclass of a derived class must be a (non-strict) subclass of the metaclasses of all its bases

Note that class D(A2, C1, B1): pass works.

Some additional context:

As said above, I'm not even sure what the actually algorithm is that determines the implicit metaclass. From my experimentation, I assume it's:

  • If there's an explicit metaclass, it is checked to be a sub-class of the metaclass of each parent
  • If there's no explicit metaclass, the parents are checked from left to right:
    • When a new metaclass is encountered, it is checked to be a sub-class of the previous implicit metaclass and, if it is, set as the new implicit metaclass.
Linked PRs
  • gh-123349

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从 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst 中的元类部分开始,并在 CPython 下运行所提供的类定义示例,以比较文档所述行为与实际观察到的行为。查看链接的 PR gh-123349 以及其中引用的历史 issue,以了解当前的调查。完成的标准是解释器行为与文档得到协调,并有明确的解决方案。

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