>Gerald Britton wrote: >> I now understand the Python does >> not consider a class definition as a separate namespace as it does for >> function definitions. That is a helpful understanding.
>That is not correct. Classes are separate namespaces -- they just >aren't automatically searched. The only namespaces that are >automatically searched are local, non-local, global, and built-in. I see you misunderstood my observation: Python does not consider a class definition as a separate namespace *as it does* for function definitions. Of course classes are separate namespaces, or they would not work at all. However, Python does not automatically search class namespaces -- even within the class definition -- *as it does* within function definitions. That is the key insight I was seeking. To search a class namespace one must qualify the lookup with the class or instance name. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
