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Two small inaccuracies in lectures/names.md, reported in #634:

Line	Before	After
229	When we run a script using IPython's run command, …	When we run a script using IPython's %run command, …
336	These definitions are stored in a module called __builtin__.	These definitions are provided by the builtins module.

__builtin__ is the Python 2 name; Python 3.0 renamed the module builtins. Bare run works only because automagic is on, and the lecture's own cells use %run. No code changes.

Why it matters for the translations. The French edition corrected both during native-editor review (QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr#80), with the same wording as here. Until the English agrees, a sync that touches the adjacent bullet can revert the French builtins correction. On merge, the sync opens a names.md PR in each of the fr, zh-cn and fa editions: check that the fr one keeps Emile's wording.

Closes #634

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🟢 Approval recommended

The documentation-only corrections were verified as accurate against the file's own code cells and Python 3 naming, leaving no outstanding issues.

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What changed in this PR

This PR fixes two factual inaccuracies in the lectures/names.md lecture, as reported in #634. It corrects a Python 2 module reference and an IPython magic command name so the prose matches both current Python 3 and the lecture's own code cells. This is a documentation-only change with no code modifications, and it also unblocks the French/Chinese/Persian translation syncs from reverting an already-applied correction.

Changes:

• Updates the prose to reference IPython's %run magic instead of bare run, consistent with the %run mod.py code cells in the same file.
• Replaces the Python 2 module name __builtin__ with the Python 3 builtins module, while leaving the distinct __builtins__ namespace references unchanged.

File	Description
lectures/​names.md	Corrects run → %run and __builtin__ → builtins in explanatory text to match Python 3 and the lecture's code cells

No issues found; the changes are correct, consistent with the surrounding code, and complete.

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✅ Translation sync completed (fr)

Target repo: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr
Translation PR: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr#102
Files synced (1):

• lectures/names.md

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✅ Translation sync completed (zh-cn)

Target repo: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.zh-cn
Translation PR: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.zh-cn#144
Files synced (1):

• lectures/names.md

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✅ Translation sync completed (fa)

Target repo: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fa
Translation PR: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fa#177
Files synced (1):

• lectures/names.md