[Python-ideas] PEP 526: why ClassVar instead of ClassAttr?

[Guido van Rossum]

There was another reason too. Many things are "class attributes" e.g.
methods, descriptors. But only specific things are class *variables*. Trust
me, we debated this when the PEP was drafted. ClassVar is better than
ClassAttr.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Juancarlo Añez <apalala at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at 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*
>



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