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You mentioned in the bug report:

Another way is just to raise an error if a not string variable name is used.

Raising a TypeError seems like the way to go here, since str works on anything. Relevant line in 'Zen':

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

Also, are there other places to implement this? Say the keys of a dataset?

 
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