[Python-Dev] Sneaky 'super' instances

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:28 AM 6/11/03 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > HappyDoc doesn't handle nested classes.  (Actually, I'm not sure *any*
> > current Python tool handles nested classes correctly.)
>
>Well, nested classes aren't exactly a recommended idiom in Python...

The only thing I ever use them for is for defining a descriptor that goes 
inside that class (and isn't used by other classes).  It reads much more 
naturally than defining the descriptors outside the class, and then putting 
them in.