can Inner Class reference the Outer Class's static variable?

[raykuan]

In the nested class, can Inner Class reference the Outer Class's static variable?

class Outer(object):
    a = 111

    class Inner(object):

        b = Outer.a.   # NameError: name 'Outer' is not defined

        @staticmethod
        def get_a(cls):
            return Outer.a  # OK