Hi @tomas.j.murphy and welcome to the forum.
I would say … it depends what you need the name property for.
A typical approach is to use the tag property of a component and set this in the __init__ method of the form:
self.button_1.tag.name = 'button_1'
You can later check:
if component.tag.name == 'button_1':
# do stuff
do you have more information about your use case and we can suggest the best approach?
side note:
It’s true that you can’t access the name of a component but this is generally true of instances of any python object. You can access the name of a class but not the name of an instance of that class.
>>> class F:
... pass
...
>>> F.__name__
'F'
>>> f = F()
>>> f
<__main__.F object at 0x10cbf8c88>
>>> f.__name__
AttributeError