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 ...

Scope determines how variables and their names are looked up in code. It defines the area of a program where you can access that name. There are two general scopes.. Global scope: names defined ...

A SCOPE is a textual region of a Python program where a namespace is directly accessible. “Directly accessible” here means that an unqualified reference to a name attempts to find the name in the ...