Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This paragraph follows a discussion and example of the fact that methods do *not* have to be defined within a class statement. Any objections to changing "The global scope associated with a method is the module containing the class definition. (The class itself is never used as a global scope.)" to "The global scope associated with a method is the module containing its definition. (A class is never used as a global scope.)" ? ---------- versions: -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue11418 _______________________________________