On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:

2014-06-03 23:38 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

Is this an intentional change? And if so, is it formally documented
somewhere? I don't recall seeing anything about it, but my
recollection doesn't mean much.

Yes, it's intentional. See the issue for the rationale:
http://bugs.python.org/issue19995

Thanks! I'll fix (in this case, simply remove) the test and cite that issue.