Declaring a class level nested class?

[cmckenzie]

Sigh, I'm using Google Groups and it seems I can't see my original
post and everyone's replies. I'm really keen to reply back, so I'll
just re-post my follow up for now and make sure I don't make a habit
of this. (I'll get a news reader) Here goes:

I agree, I'm C# and Java influenced, but I've got some messy Perl
experience too.

It was late when I posted my example, so I don't think I made my
question clear enough. I want to be able to construct a class level
class variable, so its global to the class, then reference it from a
class method. I wrote a web server that uses reflection to dynamically
load modules which are mapped to url paths. e.g. module "search.py"
maps to "search.html", etc... It all works great, but I want my
modules to be able to __init__ classes that belong to the module, then
when a request comes in and is passed to the module, I can reference
that initialized class.

The declaration of a class level nestedClass class variable is wrong,
but I was hoping someone could just say, "dummy, this is how to
declare a class variable when you can't construct it just yet", or
"you have to construct an empty version of nestedClass at the class
level, then just re-construct it with any parameters during __init__".

class module:
  nestedClass

  def __init__():
     self.nestedClass = nested(10)
     print self.nestedClass.nestedVar

  def getNestedVar(self):
     return self.nestedClass.nestedVar

  class nested():
     nestedVar = 1
     def __init__(self, value):
        nestedVar = value
        print "Initialized..."

Thanks and sorry for double posting, it won't happen again.