super() does not work in nested functions, genexps, listcomps, and gives misleading exceptions

[ztane]

BPO	26495
Nosy	@rhettinger, @benjaminp, @ztane, @jleedev, @tirkarthi

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[ztane]

super() without arguments gives proper "super() without arguments" in functions, generator functions nested in methods, if *those* do not have arguments. But if you use super() in a nested function that takes an argument, or in a generator expression or a comprehension, you'd get

Got exception: TypeError super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type

which is really annoying. Furthermore, if a nested function took another instance of type(self) as the first argument, then super() could refer unexpectedly to wrong instance:

    class Bar(Foo):
        def calculate(self, other_foos):
            def complicated_calculation(other):
                super().some_method(other)

            for item in other_foos:
                complicated_calculation(item)

now the super() call would not have implied self of calculate as the first argument, but the other argument of the nested function, all without warnings.

I believe it is a mistake that these nested functions can see __class__ at all, since it would just mostly lead them misbehaving unexpectedly.