Collection should raise an error for non-string collection names

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    • Type: Improvement
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    • 5.0
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      Collection.__getitem__ is supposed to only support string names, like this:

      >>> coll = client.db.coll
>>> coll.name
'coll'
>>> coll["foo"].name
'coll.foo'

      However in PYTHON-3084 we discovered that it accidentally supports non-string names as well:

      >>> coll[0].name
'coll.0'
>>> coll[{}].name
'coll.{}'

      We should deprecate remove this behavior in PyMongo 5.0.

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            Reporter:
            Shane Harvey
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