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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