gh-94499 Add test for private name mangling in class pattern matching (#94500)

da-woods · brandtbucher · web-flow · commit 8d7089f0a016 · 2022-07-13T09:13:10.000-07:00
The current status quo is that private attribute names are not
mangled when a class is matched. I've added a test to
document/legimize this behaviour.

Co-authored-by: Brandt Bucher &lt;brandtbucher@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_patma.py b/Lib/test/test_patma.py
@@ -2654,6 +2654,20 @@ def get(key, default=None):
 
         self.assertEqual(y, 'bar')
 
+    def test_patma_249(self):
+        class C:
+            __attr = "eggs"  # mangled to _C__attr
+            _Outer__attr = "bacon"
+        class Outer:
+            def f(self, x):
+                match x:
+                    # looks up __attr, not _C__attr or _Outer__attr
+                    case C(__attr=y):
+                        return y
+        c = C()
+        setattr(c, "__attr", "spam")  # setattr is needed because we're in a class scope
+        self.assertEqual(Outer().f(c), "spam")
+
 
 class TestSyntaxErrors(unittest.TestCase):
 
