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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def set_character_set(self, charset):
 """Set the connection character set to charset. The character set can only be changed in MySQL-4.1 and newer. If you try to change the character set from the current value in an older version, NotSupportedError will be raised."""

        if charset in ("utf8mb4", "utf8mb3"):
            py_charset = "utf8"
        else:
            py_charset = charset
        if self.character_set_name() != charset:
            try:
                super(Connection, self).set_character_set(charset)
            except AttributeError:
                if self._server_version < (4, 1):
                    raise NotSupportedError("server is too old to set charset")
                self.query('SET NAMES %s' % charset)
                self.store_result()
        self.encoding = py_charset