[Python-Dev] Type of range object members

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> To be honest I have no idea how/why Martin or Tim picked this name.
> Perhaps it is in POSIX?

it's from sys/types.h, which is a posix thing, afaik:

    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/systypes.h.html

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