R. David Murray added the comment:

My impression is that it was fixed the way it was because it makes the internal 
tokenizer match the what the tokenize module does.  See also issue 3353.  As 
for changing it in a point release, it turns something that was an error into 
something that isn't, so it was unlikely to break existing working code.  Going 
the other way in the tokenize module *would* have been a backward compatibility 
issue.  If we wanted to change this, it would require a deprecation process, 
and it hardly seems worth it.  I hear you about other tokenizers, though, and 
that is indeed unfortunate.

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