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  r85154 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-01 19:03:31 -0500 (Fri, 01 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  type.__abstractmethods__ should raise an AttributeError #10006
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_abc.py b/Lib/test/test_abc.py
index 6a8c3a1..edd2c04 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_abc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_abc.py
@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@
         self.assertFalse(issubclass(OldstyleClass, A))
         self.assertFalse(issubclass(A, OldstyleClass))
 
+    def test_type_has_no_abstractmethods(self):
+        # type pretends not to have __abstractmethods__.
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, getattr, type, "__abstractmethods__")
+        class meta(type):
+            pass
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, getattr, meta, "__abstractmethods__")
+
     def test_isinstance_class(self):
         class A:
             __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1fabf61..94c0ff7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
   fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
   subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
 
+- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
+
 - Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
   thread-local storage key.
 
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index d262168..9cb7e62 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -307,8 +307,11 @@
 static PyObject *
 type_abstractmethods(PyTypeObject *type, void *context)
 {
-    PyObject *mod = PyDict_GetItemString(type->tp_dict,
-                                         "__abstractmethods__");
+    PyObject *mod = NULL;
+    /* type its self has an __abstractmethods__ descriptor (this). Don't
+       return that. */
+    if (type != &PyType_Type)
+        mod = PyDict_GetItemString(type->tp_dict, "__abstractmethods__");
     if (!mod) {
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_AttributeError, "__abstractmethods__");
         return NULL;