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Also I recently discovered that pypy supports non-ASCII characters pretty well which at least doesn't work with my version of python 2.7.6

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In what way?

In variable names, for example. You can do this:

    >>> π = 3.14

In Python 2:

    >>> π = 3.14
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        π = 3.14
        ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

  Python 2.7.10 (850edf14b2c7, Oct 29 2015, 17:32:05)
  [PyPy 4.0.0 with GCC 5.2.0] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>>> π = 3.14
    File "<stdin>", line 1
      π = 3.14
      ^
  SyntaxError: Unknown character

Are you sure you weren't trying it in Python 3 (or PyPy3) rather than PyPy?

I'm getting same result as scardine:

    Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 30 2014, 15:34:38) [GCC] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> π = 3.14
      File "<stdin>", line 1
        π = 3.14
        ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    >>>

also:

    Python 3.4.1 (default, May 23 2014, 17:48:28) [GCC] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> π = 3.14
    >>> print(π)
    3.14

You are right, this is Python 3 stuff. I just assumed the parent was talking about Pypy3.

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