__qualname__ exposed as a local variable: standard?

[carlosjosepita at gmail.com]

Hi all,

I noticed __qualname__ is exposed by locals() while defining a class. This is handy but I'm not sure about its status: is it standard or just an artifact of the current implementation? (btw, the pycodestyle linter -former pep8- rejects its usage). I was unable to find any reference to this behavior in PEP 3155 nor in the language reference.

Thank you in advance
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Carlos