Error when connecting signal to function whose __name__ gets overriden with parentheses

After a signal is connected to a function whose _name_ gets overriden for whatever reason, the following hard-to-understand error can happen when the signal is emitted:

TypeError: Can't call meta function because I have no idea how to handle myname

See example code, which sets the function name to "make_handler(myname)".  If I remove the closing paren, the error becomes "how to handle myname7f64ac794ee0(".  If I remove the opening paren only, no such problem occur.

I see several problems here:

• the error message is non-informative
• the error occuring when the signal is fired, could probably have been detected at connect-time
• legal messing with a standard python attribute causing unexpected interaction: PySide/Shiboken should probably not interpret this.

This problem does not occur with PyQt5.