"_io" module names itself "io"

[pitrou]

BPO	18602
Nosy	@jcea, @amauryfa, @pitrou, @benjaminp, @ezio-melotti

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[pitrou]

In Modules/_io/_iomodule.c, the name field of the module struct is initialized to "io" rather than "_io". The change should intuitively be harmless, but perhaps there's a reason why it is like that?

[ezio-melotti]

Have you tried to change it and run the test suite? Maybe it breaks pickling or something similar?

[pitrou]

Have you tried to change it and run the test suite? Maybe it breaks
pickling or something similar?

Yeah, it came to me that it may break pickle. The test suite may not
pick it, though.

[devdanzin]

Setting to pending given the long inactivity, long history of the current behavior, and uncertainty about it being possible that this breaks pickling.

[cmaloney]

I think this can be closed; It would have been nice to fix but I don't see a lot of value for the possible breakages at this point.