The above is a very thick response that doesn't address the parent's points, just sweeps them under the rag with "that's just how it was designed/it works".

"Did you miss the part where I explained to you there's no way to identify that it's a member variable?"

No, you you did miss the case where that in itself can be considered nuts - or at least an unfortunate early decision.

"this just how things are dunn around diz here parts" is not an argument.

> No, you you did miss the case where that in itself can be considered nuts - or at least an unfortunate early decision.

This is not a side implementation detail, that they got wrong, this is a fundamental design goal of Python. You can find that nuts, but then just don't use Python, because that is (one of) that things, that make Python Python.

> considered nuts - or at least an unfortunate early decision

Please explain to us then how exactly you would infer a variable with an arbitrary name is actually a reference to the class instance in an interpreted language.