Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 30 18:47:00 EDT 2017

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Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member names 
> were globals.

That would certainly explain the origins of it, but I'm
pretty sure it wasn't the case by the time Python was
invented. So Guido must have liked it for other reasons.

-- 
Greg

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