Previously we were generating API keys deterministically using a hash
of the user's email address; this is clearly not a good long-term
approach.
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See PEP 328[1] for details. This feature was introduced in Python 2.5 and
will become mandatory in Python 3.
[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328
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