Inheritance and Inner/Nested Classes

[Paul Morrow]

I'm hoping that someone can explain why I get the following exception. 
When I execute the code...

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class Parent(object):
     class Foo(object):
         baz = 'hello from Parent.Foo'

class Child(Parent):
     #Foo.baz = 'hello from Child.Foo'
     pass

print Child.Foo.baz
print dir(Child)
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...it displays what I expect...

hello from Parent.Foo
['Foo', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', 
'__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__', 
'__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', 
'__weakref__']

...but when I uncomment the first line of the Child class, Python
complains that Foo is undefined...

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test1.py", line 5, in ?
     class Child(Parent):
   File "test1.py", line 6, in Child
     Foo.baz = 'hello from Child.Foo'
NameError: name 'Foo' is not defined

Thanks in advance.

Paul