On Aug 26, 8:36 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > 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.
Oh well, I guess that sucks for you. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
