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by ubernostrum 3205 days ago
The change to UTF-8 source encoding also changed the legal set of characters for identifiers, and specified how to normalize them. Which in turn is the reason behind this thing I posted on Twitter a while back:

https://gist.github.com/ubernostrum/b7b705bf21b86a1b5c1e2c9f...

And also is a big enough change to not really be something that could happen in Python 2.