Rename non-active material

Coding Python Support
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Is it possible to rename a material that is not assigned to an object?

I’m doing this atm to import materials, but the new materials name ends up with a suffix instead of replacing the old one by the same name:

matPath = “C:/simplemat.blend”
with bpy.data.libraries.load(matPath, link=False) as (data_src, data_dst):
data_dst.materials = [data_src.materials[0]]

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bpy.data.materials[material.name].name ??

Check out name panel, it will let you fix the counting issue for the materials. link in my signature.