Namespaces in Python are “a mapping from names to objects”. They’re a pretty fundamental part of the language, even making it to The Zen of Python.

As per cppreference, “namespaces provide a method for preventing name conflicts in large projects” in C++.

Are the C++ namespaces the same entity as Python’s? I’ve read about the global namespace in C++ but nothing about, for example, a function declaration/call creating a new namespace to store the names for that function. It sounds like the name “namespace” is reserved only for the entity that users can create themselves to group together logically similar objects.

But surely, something is created to store the names in a particular scope in C++ as well, right? Is it right to refer to that as a namespace? If not, what’s it called?