Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

> Would allow for the name attribute to be optional
  ...
>  with the idea that sometime in the future we can
> deprecate pulling attributes from a module directly

Is there any chance that this would ever happen?
The __name__ attribute has been around almost forever
is widely relied on.  Deprecating it would be a very
disruptive event for nearly zero benefit.

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nosy: +rhettinger

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