vasudevram wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:20:36 AM UTC+5:30, alex23 wrote:
>>
>> A nested class definition will be defined as an attribute of the class
>>
>> its defined within:
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> class Outer(object):
>>
>> ... foo = 'FOO'
>>
>> ... class Inner(object):
>>
>> ... bar = 'BAR'
>>
>> ...
>>
>> >>> Outer.Inner
> Just one other doubt:
>
>> >>> Outer.Inner
>>
>> <class '__main__.Inner'>
>>
>
> In the above output, I would have thought Python would print
> __main__.Outer.Inner or Outer.Inner instead of __main__.Inner, since Inner
> is an attribute of Outer?
The Python developers seem to agree with you and have made the compiler
smart enough to accomodate your expectations in Python 3.3:
$ cat tmp.py
class Outer:
class Inner:
pass
print(Outer.Inner)
$ python3.2 tmp.py
<class '__main__.Inner'>
$ python3.3 tmp.py
<class '__main__.Outer.Inner'>
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