Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

You can never assume that "name" will be a string:

>>> f = open(0, "r")
>>> f.name
0

This may be a bit of a bad idea API-wise, but changing it now will start 
breaking code, so I think we should leave it as-is.

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nosy: +aronacher, pitrou

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