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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:40:05 +1100
Subject: Re: frame.f_locals['__class__'] -- When does it (not) exist and why?
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 4:25 PM,  <kevinarpe@gmail.com> wrote:
> When super().__init__() is called, a 'magic' local appears in frame.f_loc=
als called '__class__'.  Helpfully, it has the correct class for the contex=
t, which will differ from type(self).  (I discovered this magic local by po=
king around in the debugger.  I am unable to find any official documentatio=
n on it.)
>

Interesting. Are you sure you can't get the class name via the
function, rather than depending on this magic local? That seems
fragile.

Your example code isn't currently runnable ("def class"); can you
provide a self-contained program that actually attempts to display
something? It'd be helpful for those of us who aren't familiar with
internal and esoteric details of tracebacks and __init__ :)

ChrisA