[Python-Dev] "Micro-optimisations can speed up CPython"

[Serhiy Storchaka]

30.05.17 09:06, Greg Ewing пише:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> What does "tp" stand for? Type something, I guess.
> 
> I think it's just short for "type". There's an old tradition
> in C of giving member names a short prefix reminiscent of
> the type they belong to. Not sure why, maybe someone thought
> it helped readability.

In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member names 
were globals.