References to "pysqlite" in documentation of sqlite3 should be changed.

[MLModel]

BPO	6055
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @MLModel

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[MLModel]

Why are there references to "pysqlite" in the documentation and examples
for the sqlite3 module. Was sqlite3 derived from the earlier pysqlite
module? Seems to me that all the references to "pysqlite" should read
"sqlite3", except maybe in a reworded attribution to the developer.

[MLModel]

I see that the _sqlite .h and .c files, and the sqlite3/dbapi2.py file,
all use "pysqlite" instead of "sqlite3" internally. Should that be
changed too, or is there just no point? My main concern is that people
relatively new to Python who wouldn't be aware of the long history some
modules have and their migration from external packages into the
distribution (often with a name change) will be confused by mentions of
pysqlite in the documentation.

[birkenfeld]

pysqlite is an alias of sqlite3; it's developed outside of the core
under that name. I agree that this can be confusing, and I've now
removed almost all mentions (and qualified the remaining one) in r72801.

I will not touch occurrences in source code; this will make syncing with
pysqlite unnecessarily hard.