[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib/test test_os.py,1.6,1.7

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> Call me old-fashioned, but I *like* struct fields with unique
> prefixes, in Python as well as in C.  It's a hint about what kind of
> data structure we're looking at.

The name of whatever is referring to the struct
should be doing that.

Anyway, if it's such a good thing, why don't you
use it in all the Python code you write?

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