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