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Message 228021 - Python tracker

It looks like the issue was already fixed:

haypo@smithers$ ./python
Python 3.5.0a0 (default:8e9df3414185, Oct  1 2014, 00:19:36) 
>>> inv​alid = 5
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    inv​alid = 5
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

The cursor is now before "=". It's not on the invalid character inside the identifier, but it's better than before ;-)