Need help with Python scoping rules

[Ethan Furman]

kj wrote:
> I think I understand the answers well enough.  What I *really*
> don't understand is why this particular "feature" of Python (i.e.
> that functions defined within a class statement are forbidden from
> "seeing" other identifiers defined within the class statement) is
> generally considered to be perfectly OK.  IMO it's a bizarre,
> inexplicable blindspot (which, among other things, gives rise to
> a certain worry about what other similar craziness lurks under
> Python's image of rationality).  I have never seen even a half-hearted
> justification, from a language design point of view, for why this
> particular "feature" is worth having.  Maybe some day the BDFL will
> deign to give one.
> 
> kynn

You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it 
means.  :)

Keep studying.  Listen.  Learn how it *is*.  Understanding may come later.

~Ethan~