Corrected typo without breaking backwards compatibility #3398
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I noticed the note about the misspelled variable in #3029 which was mentioned in #2361 and #1861. The concerns about breaking backwards compatibility were important and actually sparked interest if this was resolvable. I sought to solve this issue while meeting the following requirements:
I used a mix of
inspect
functionality and very basic regex to achieve the above to the best of my understanding pending your review.Python 3.8-3.12 local test using tox below; had a residual 3.13 environment that made me have to run it separately:

Python 3.13 test run separately after cleaning the 3.13 environment:

Ran
pre-commit
per the Contribution guide but it seemed to skip all the tests for some reason:Also ran

ruff
independently on edited files:Ran

isort
and neither file edited was modified, so that's good as well.Below is the final result in terms of user experience if they attempt a module or named import:
May be a bit trivial, but below shows imports of the old variable name have changes reflected in the corrected one via pass by reference convention:
Standing by for any questions, comments, recommendations or direction.