[Python-ideas] Give generators a name?

[Terry Reedy]

I have 2 related proposals:

1. Give generators a .__name__ attribute that is the same as their curent 
(3.0a5) .gi_code.co_name subattribute.  just as funct.__name__ is 
func.__code__.co_name.

My reason is, I expect, much the same as that for func.__name__.  I am 
using the generator name (for bad-iterator-output messages in a test 
function) and would prefer to get it through a cross-implementation 
'public' interface' rather than a cPython internal  implementation detail 
(which I understand code object to be).  I am otherwise trying to avoid 
using cPython internals.

(Is there any plan to change the gi_* attributes the way the func_* 
attributes were?)

2. Whether or not 1 is adopted, add the name to the representation:
 <gfuncname generator object as..> or <generator object gfuncname at ..>

Conceptually, I see a generator function as an abbreviated version of a 
iterator class, with most of the boilerplate removed, that defines a 
subclass of the generator class.  So I think the subclass name should be 
part of its representation.

Terry Jan Reedy