In Python 2.x, names outside the local scope are wholly inaccessible except by passing them in, unless they happen to be in the global scope. I have a class that has a couple of read-only/constant ...

Post a runnable example that demonstrates the unwanted behavior. There are a number of different ways to cause that sort of thing in Python.

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