On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:It's "class variable" because we (at least I) also routinely use "instance variable".
It is `getattr()`, `setattr()`, and a very long etc. in Python.I agree with the OP that a sudden talk about "vars" is confusing, more so when Python doesn't have "vars", but "names" (etc.).Cheers!--Juancarlo Añez