Why nested scope rules do not apply to inner Class?

[Cousson, Benoit]

Hi,

I'd like to be able to use a nested class (C1) from another sibling nested class (C3). This looks very similar to the nested scopes of functions except that it does not work.

class A(object):
pass

class B(object):

class C1(object):
pass

class C2(C1):
foo = A

class C3(object):
foo = C1

The funny thing is that C2 can inherit from C1 but C3 cannot reference C1. B.C1 does not work either, but in that case it makes sense since B is stillbeing defined.
Is this a language limitation or something that does not make sense at all?

I'm wondering as well if the new nonlocal statement will fix that in py3k?

Thanks in advance,
Benoit

[Salim Fadhley]

I'm wondering as well if the new nonlocal statement will fix that in py3k?

The "class C3" statement is executing before the "class B" statement
has concluded, so at that time B does not exist in any scope at all,
not even globals(). You could reference B.C1 inside a method because a
method is executed AFTER the class is defined.
class A(object):
pass

class B(object):

class C1(object):
pass

class C2(C1):
foo = A

class C3(object):

@staticmethod
def test( ):
print repr( B.C1 )
print repr( B.C2 )

B.C3.test()

:-)