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in 3rd line, list comprehension tries to access class_attribute1 as a
global variable (code is valid in python 2.5)
>>> class Foo(object):
... class_attribute1 = 1
... class_attribute2 = [class_attribute1 for x in range(8)]
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "<stdin>", line 3, in Foo
 File "<stdin>", line 3, in <listcomp>
NameError: global name 'class_attribute1' is not defined

I believe the problem is that list comprehensions in 3.0 have scope like
that of genexprs in 2.5, but the change was deliberate (as it also
avoids leaking of temp variables).
Compare to 2.5:
>>> class Foo(object):
... class_attribute1 = 1
... class_attribute2 = (class_attribute1 for x in range(8))
...
>>> Foo.class_attribute2.next()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "<stdin>", line 3, in <genexpr>
NameError: global name 'class_attribute1' is not defined

This won't change -- in 3.0, list comprehensions and generator
expressions are both implemented using a function, so it's like the
following:
class Foo:
 attribute1 = 1
 def f():
 return attribute1
 attribute2 = f()

Could we possibly revisit this? This feels like an implementation detail, not something specified. Consider the different cases:
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>>> class A:
... b = 5
... print(locals())
... x = [i*i for i in range(b)]
...
{'__qualname__': 'A', '__locals__': {...}, '__module__': '__main__', 'b': 5}
This case works, and shows that 'b' is clearly in locals(). 
>>> class A:
... b = 5
... c = b * b
... print(locals())
... d = []
... for i in range(b):
... d.append(i*i)
... print(locals())
... e = [i*i for i in range(b) if i*i < c]
...
{'__locals__': {...}, '__qualname__': 'A', 'b': 5, '__module__': '__main__', 'c': 25}
{'__qualname__': 'A', 'b': 5, '__module__': '__main__', 'c': 25, 'i': 4, 'd': [0, 1, 4, 9, 16], '__locals__': {...}}
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "<stdin>", line 9, in A
 File "<stdin>", line 9, in <listcomp>
NameError: global name 'c' is not defined
Again, it feels really arbitrary that the variable can be used in certain places in the list comprehension, but not others.
And of course, all of this works properly if you place the definitions either at global scope or within a function.

I stumble upon this bug when porting a Python 2 codebase to 3 and suddenly got a NameError for the following code.
 class Foo:
 a = [1,2,3]
 b = [4,5,6]
 c = [x * y for x in a for y in b]
 NameError: name 'b' is not defined
Not sure what could be done at this point but I thought I'd leave some feedback given I was surprised this would break given it works just fine if not defined at the class level.
 a = [1,2,3]
 b = [4,5,6]
 c = [x * y for x in a for y in b]

I'm re-opening this, since the behavior sounds like a bug to me.
While I understand why it behaves the way it is now, but it seems wrong behavior. Perhaps we should look into finding a solution.

Mariatta,
> While I understand why it behaves the way it is now, but it seems wrong behavior. Perhaps we should look into finding a solution.
I am all in favour of dropping implicit function scope in comprehensions (mostly because of weirdness like described here, but it will also fix some `yield` issues and simplify some `await` aspects). But I was not able to convince others it worth the effort. Maybe we can make another attempt at discussing this?

See https://bugs.python.org/issue33346 for yet another example where implicit function scope complicates life.

There's a proposal for a fix currently in PEP 572. I'm linking to the commit here because we're likely to remove it from PEP 572, but it may be proposed as a separate PEP: https://github.com/python/peps/commit/71fea57f19231b9917ce6a558c0b763288385398
Bug or not this is not going to change without a PEP, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to keep this issue open.

> Bug or not this is not going to change without a PEP, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to keep this issue open.
I agree this requires a PEP. I would like to keep this open as a place for pre-PEP discussions among those interested (and as a remainder to maybe write such PEP).

I don't think this will need drastic changes. Just setting some flags here or there for making comprehensions using LOAD_NAME instead of LOAD_GLOBAL. The fix should lie near the fix for issue33346.

> I don't think this will need drastic changes.
IIRC LOAD_NAME loads from the *local* scope, which will be the synthetic
function created for the comprehension (whose scope contains the loop
control variables). We may need a new opcode similar to LOAD_GLOBAL that
looks in two non-local directories rather than just one before falling back
to builtins; and the function object would need to have a link to both the
class dict and the global dict -- currently function objects gave a
__globals__ link but there's no chaining. Or perhaps __globals__ could be
set to a chainmap referencing the class dict and the globals?

Indeed, this issue is more complex than it looked to me.
Technically, LOAD_FAST, which is used for reading the loop
control variables in comprehensions, uses the array f->f_localsplus, while LOAD_NAME uses f->f_locals and f->f_globals. When executing class bodies, f->f_localsplus is NULL, and if executing functions f->f_locals usually is a NULL or a cached copy of a dict created from f->f_localsplus. But we can create a hybrid frame for comprehensions in class body, which will contain independent f->f_localsplus and f->f_locals. References to the loop
control variables and to the class variables will work as expected, just the meaning of locals() will be changed.