Use spec.name instead of name in the docs where appropriate

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#70,100 opened on Dec 19, 2015 3 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Python library documentation and the linked BPO issue 25912 to identify references to name that should use spec.name. Done means the appropriate documentation references are updated consistently; the payload names no specific files or tests to run.

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Description

stdlib topic-importlib type-feature

BPO	25912
Nosy	@anntzer

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-12-19.22:39:00.300>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'Use __spec__.__name__ instead of __name__ in the docs where appropriate'
updated_at = <Date 2020-09-11.23:16:03.283>
user = 'https://github.com/anntzer'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2020-09-11.23:16:03.283>
actor = 'brett.cannon'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2015-12-19.22:39:00.300>
creator = 'Antony.Lee'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 25912
keywords = []
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['256743', '256776']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['docs@python', 'Antony.Lee']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'test needed'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue25912'
versions = ['Python 3.6']

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