[Closed] Scale of linked object returns parents' scale?

Hi there,

                    I’m creating a small pre-render checkup tool for our production, which checks some basic things in a scene - such as objects not being scaled (whether scaling things to other than 100,100,100 is a good thing or not is a discussion for another time and place). 

                                          Anyway, what I’ve got currently is something like:                     

for i in objects do (
 
 scl = i.scale
 print scl

)

                    sometimes, however, this outputs different than [1,1,1], despite i’s scale showing as 100,100,100 in the viewport. It seems this occurs when i is linked to an object that is scaled. Is it possible to get the “native” scale of i, ignoring any scaling it inherits from its parent? (forgive my terminology, I’m not sure how to describe it otherwise). 

                                          Example:                     

                    Object01 is linked to Object02. Object02 is scaled to [120,120,120], while Object01 is not scaled (ie, it’s [100,100,100]). When I query Object01’s scale through MAXScript, it outputs [1.2,1.2,1.2].