Thank you for the report. Unfortunately, the 2.6 behavior was a bug, as I explained on #9220: Magic methods are looked up on the object’s class, not in the object’s __dict__. <http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel#specialnames>

(Your test with class methods was a clever idea, but a class is a type instance, so it’s the same behavior: __enter__ is looked up on type, not on the class. Nice try :)

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