gh-143504: Expose CELL status of a symbol in symtable

Doc/library/symtable.rst

@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ Examining Symbol Tables
       Return a tuple containing names of :term:`free (closure) variables <closure variable>`
       in this function.
 
+   .. method:: get_cells()
+
+      Return a tuple containing the names of cell variables in this table.
+
 
 .. class:: Class
 
@@ -353,6 +357,12 @@ Examining Symbol Tables
       Return the namespace bound to this name. If more than one or no namespace
       is bound to this name, a :exc:`ValueError` is raised.
 
+   .. method:: is_cell()
+
+      Return ``True`` if the symbol is a cell variable.
+
+      .. versionadded:: 3.15
+
 
 .. _symtable-cli:
 

Lib/symtable.py

@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ class Function(SymbolTable):
     __frees = None
     __globals = None
     __nonlocals = None
+    __cells = None
 
     def __idents_matching(self, test_func):
         return tuple(ident for ident in self.get_identifiers()
@@ -229,6 +230,14 @@ def get_frees(self):
             self.__frees = self.__idents_matching(is_free)
         return self.__frees
 
+    def get_cells(self):
+        """Return a tuple of cell variable names in the table.
+        """
+        if self.__cells is None:
+            is_cell = lambda x: _get_scope(x) == CELL
+            self.__cells = self.__idents_matching(is_cell)
+        return self.__cells
+
 
 class Class(SymbolTable):
 
@@ -342,6 +351,10 @@ def is_free(self):
         """
         return bool(self.__scope == FREE)
 
+    def is_cell(self):
+        """Return *True* if the symbol is a cell variable."""
+        return bool(self.__scope == CELL)
+
     def is_free_class(self):
         """Return *True* if a class-scoped symbol is free from
         the perspective of a method."""

Lib/test/test_symtable.py

@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ def test_function_info(self):
         self.assertEqual(sorted(func.get_locals()), expected)
         self.assertEqual(sorted(func.get_globals()), ["bar", "glob", "some_assigned_global_var"])
         self.assertEqual(self.internal.get_frees(), ("x",))
+        self.assertEqual(self.spam.get_cells(), ("some_var", "x",))
 
     def test_globals(self):
         self.assertTrue(self.spam.lookup("glob").is_global())
@@ -284,6 +285,9 @@ def test_local(self):
     def test_free(self):
         self.assertTrue(self.internal.lookup("x").is_free())
 
+    def test_cells(self):
+        self.assertTrue(self.spam.lookup("x").is_cell())
+
     def test_referenced(self):
         self.assertTrue(self.internal.lookup("x").is_referenced())
         self.assertTrue(self.spam.lookup("internal").is_referenced())

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-01-08-16-28-03.gh-issue-143504.PlC_Yv.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add symtable.is_cell() and get_cells() methods for cell variable analysis.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-24-13-49-05.gh-issue-143594.nilGlg.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Add :meth:`symtable.SymbolTable.get_cells` and
+:meth:`symtable.Symbol.is_cell` methods.