A workaround for a nested scope not being able to access its parent scope

scope_trickery.py

#Note that this is not recommended, we may not be able to rely on locals() being mutable on other platforms or future versions

#Also note https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29333359/python-class-scoping-rules
scope_transfer = dict()

class my_namespace:

	class some_thing:
		pass

	scope_transfer.update(locals())

	class thing_that_refers_to_some_thing:
		locals().update(scope_transfer)
		item = some_thing

del scope_transfer	


print(my_namespace.thing_that_refers_to_some_thing.item)
#Output: <class 'scope_example.my_namespace.some_thing'>

Note, we are taking everything in locals() including __name__ it is better with explicit import of the references we care about.