Nested class doesn't see class scope

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tuesday 05 July 2016 14:41, Ian Kelly wrote:

> Class definitions don't create closures like functions do. When Python
> executes a class definition, the metaclass creates a dict, and then
> the interpreter execs the class body using that dict as the locals.
> The body of class A has one locals dict, and the body of class B has a
> completely separate locals dict. The only way to share variables
> between them (prior to the class objects actually being constructed)
> is via globals.


So, like nested functions in Python before "from __future__ import 
nested_scopes".


Okay, that's reasonable.



-- 
Steve