Simply, this new method should count nodes in a selected subtree, specified by a given node data. This node represents a root of that subtree, whose nodes it has to count. So what do I want to do, is to find that node data in already created "nodes" (dictionary), to find its Node refference and then apply the basic nodes counting, beginning with this node. However, I have "nodes" in other method and so what I need to know is, how can I use "nodes" also in this new method, without making an attribute for the whole class.