Why nested scope rules do not apply to inner Class?

[Calvin Spealman]

Please re-evaluate your "need" for nesting classes in the first place.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson at ti.com> wrote:
>> This is a language limitation.
>> This is because nested scope is implemented for python function only since
>> 2.3
>> allow late binding of free variables. the scope in class statment is not a
>> closure, so there is only two possible scope in it : local and global.
>
> That was my understanding as well, but I think it is a pity to have that limitation. Don't you think that the same improvement that was done for method nested scope could be done as well for nested class?
>
> I can easily fix my current issue by doing the binding after the class declaration.
> My concern is more about the lack of symmetry of that approach; meaning that if both classes are in the global scope, one can access the others, whereas if they are in the body of another class they cannot.
>
> This is OK:
>
> class A(object):
>        pass
>
> class B(object):
>        foo=A
>
>
> I have to add the binding after the declaration in the case of nested:
>
> class C(object):
>        class A(object):
>                pass
>
>        class B(object):
>                foo=None
>        B.foo = A
>
> That extra step is a little bit painful and should not be necessary for my point of view.
>
>
>> > I'm wondering as well if the new nonlocal statement will fix that in
>> py3k?
>> >
>>
>> nonlocal doesn't adress this issue an I doubt python 3.0 fix it at all.
>>
>> You have the same problem with generator expressions, which bind lately
>> outer
>> loop variables :
>
> Good to know, I was not aware of that.
>
> Thanks,
> Benoit
>
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