In <1bf83a7e-f9eb-46ff-84fe-cf42d9608...@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes:
>Yeah, it's a little surprising that you can't access class scope from >a function, but that has nothing to do with encapsulation. It does: it thwarts encapsulation. The helper function in my example is one that clearly rightfully belongs nowhere else than the class itself, i.e. encapsulated within the class. It is only this silly prohibition against recursive functions in a class statement that forces one to put it outside the class statement. kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
