Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: >The basic problem is that the class object is defined after the class >definitions have been made,
I have sometimes thought the the class statement could start with binding the name to a blank object or new, blank class object. But then people might try to grab attributes (and fail!) outside of method defs. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11339> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com