You even have the same boilerplate of the first argument to a class member function being the object itself.

Yes. I was thinking mainly of Perl's symbol table which I believe is also how OO is implemented in Python.

My understanding was that Perl's OO system was directly inspired by Python's. I can't find a source on that though.

Other way round I think.

Nope. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

> I don’t really know much about Python. I only stole its object system for Perl 5. I have since repented.