reading scene.range doesn't seem to work

The following code snippet generates a runtime error saying that reading scene.range isn't supported when autoscale is enabled. Yet saying scene.autoscale = 0 should disable autoscale. Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong?

from visual import *
sphere()
scene.autoscale = 0
print (scene.range)

Joe Heafner
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