bpo-39431: Also mention nonlocal in assignment quirk (GH-17375)
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 0c0dca9..f781fec 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -143,10 +143,10 @@
time, so don't rely on dynamic name resolution! (In fact, local variables are
already determined statically.)
-A special quirk of Python is that -- if no :keyword:`global` statement is in
-effect -- assignments to names always go into the innermost scope. Assignments
-do not copy data --- they just bind names to objects. The same is true for
-deletions: the statement ``del x`` removes the binding of ``x`` from the
+A special quirk of Python is that -- if no :keyword:`global` or :keyword:`nonlocal`
+statement is in effect -- assignments to names always go into the innermost scope.
+Assignments do not copy data --- they just bind names to objects. The same is true
+for deletions: the statement ``del x`` removes the binding of ``x`` from the
namespace referenced by the local scope. In fact, all operations that introduce
new names use the local scope: in particular, :keyword:`import` statements and
function definitions bind the module or function name in the local scope.