The submission process is entirely inscrutable; but as far as it is possible to work out, it’s a literal substring match on the py/pyc file. And yes, it is awful, in every sense of the word.
Maybe. Maybe not. 
Ask again later. 
That definitely sounds appealing as an approach - but in this case, it’s going to be screaming into the void. There’s barely even an appeals process for app rejection on Apple’s App Store. We definitely don’t have any sort of channel to raise a complaint that we could reasonably believe would result in a change of policy.