Python "Attribute" Definition

By the way, I use the word attribute for any name following a dot — for example, in the expression z.real, real is an attribute of the objectz. Strictly speaking, references to names in modules are attribute references: in the expression modname.funcname, modname is a module object and funcname is an attribute of it. In this case there happens to be a straightforward mapping between the module’s attributes and the global names defined in the module: they share the same namespace! [1]