Add support for super() in NamedTuple subclasses

Fixes GH-85795

Author: bswck

Doc/library/typing.rst

@@ -2341,6 +2341,9 @@ types.
           def __repr__(self) -> str:
               return f'<Employee {self.name}, id={self.id}>'
 
+   Calls to :func:`super` are supported inside user-defined methods of ``NamedTuple`` subclasses
+   to reuse functionality from built-in classes :class:`tuple` and :class:`object`.
+
    ``NamedTuple`` subclasses can be generic::
 
       class Group[T](NamedTuple):

Lib/collections/__init__.py

@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ def __ror__(self, other):
 except ImportError:
     _tuplegetter = lambda index, doc: property(_itemgetter(index), doc=doc)
 
-def namedtuple(typename, field_names, *, rename=False, defaults=None, module=None):
+def namedtuple(typename, field_names, *, rename=False, defaults=None, module=None, _classcell=None):
     """Returns a new subclass of tuple with named fields.
 
     >>> Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'])
@@ -508,6 +508,10 @@ def __getnewargs__(self):
         '__getnewargs__': __getnewargs__,
         '__match_args__': field_names,
     }
+
+    if _classcell is not None:
+        class_namespace["__classcell__"] = _classcell
+
     for index, name in enumerate(field_names):
         doc = _sys.intern(f'Alias for field number {index}')
         class_namespace[name] = _tuplegetter(index, doc)

Lib/test/test_typing.py

@@ -8135,6 +8135,25 @@ class Group(NamedTuple):
         self.assertIs(type(a), Group)
         self.assertEqual(a, (1, [2]))
 
+    def test_classcell_access(self):
+        # See #85795: __class__ not set defining 'X' as <class '__main__.X'>
+        class AspiringTriager(NamedTuple):
+            name: str = "Bartosz"
+
+            @property
+            def tablename(self):
+                return __class__.__name__.lower() + "s"
+
+            def count(self, item):
+                if item == "Bartosz":
+                    return super().count(item)
+                return -1
+
+        aspiring_triager = AspiringTriager()
+        self.assertEqual(aspiring_triager.tablename, "aspiringtriagers")
+        self.assertEqual(aspiring_triager.count("Bartosz"), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(aspiring_triager.count("Peter"), -1)  # already a triager!
+
     def test_namedtuple_keyword_usage(self):
         with self.assertWarnsRegex(
             DeprecationWarning,

Lib/typing.py

@@ -2929,9 +2929,9 @@ def __round__(self, ndigits: int = 0) -> T:
         pass
 
 
-def _make_nmtuple(name, fields, annotate_func, module, defaults = ()):
-    nm_tpl = collections.namedtuple(name, fields,
-                                    defaults=defaults, module=module)
+def _make_nmtuple(name, fields, annotate_func, module, defaults = (), _classcell=None):
+    nm_tpl = collections.namedtuple(name, fields, defaults=defaults,
+                                    module=module, _classcell=_classcell)
     nm_tpl.__annotate__ = nm_tpl.__new__.__annotate__ = annotate_func
     return nm_tpl