more specifically, this PR exposes a curious side effect of the Unicode 15.0 → Unicode 15.1 upgrade when it comes to #Python identifiers: ZWJ is now allowed as a 'continue' character (i.e. you can use it in an identifier as long as it's not the first codepoint)

```
$ python3.12 -c 'print(str.isidentifier("A_\u200d_B"))'
False
$ python3.13 -c 'print(str.isidentifier("A_\u200d_B"))'
True
$ python3.13 -c 'print(str.isidentifier("A_\u200d"))' # unfortunately, a trailing ZWJ is legal too
```

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/109560

#CPythonTrivia #Unicode

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Mastodon.py version 2.2.0 is now out! 🦣🐍

There's a quite a few bug fixes (thank you to everyone who reported and/or fixed something), and support for 4.5 functionality: Quotes as well as async refreshing! Also quite a bit of additional testing, coverage is now above 90%.

As usual, please report any bugs you see, I should have the time to do quick fixes and maintenance release in the near future hopefully.

* Changelog: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py/releases/tag/v2.2.0
* Docs: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/v2.2.0/
* PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/Mastodon.py/

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