Initialization scope bug?

[Parker, Chris]

The following code does not work for some reason in Python 2.6.5
(r265:79063, Jun  9 2010, 16:26:11) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Apparently, the class's function definition is accepted just fine by
Python, however when the function is called during the initialization
that follows, the function cannot see the class attribute defined before
it and an error is returned!

class MyClass:
    START=10
    def getStart(): return START
    x = START # OK
    y = getStart () # Error!


The error I get is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 5, in MyClass
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in getStart
NameError: global name 'START' is not defined


Is this a bug?

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