Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> I have a vague memory that that's the way it *did* work once upon a time

Here we go: https://bugs.python.org/issue513866
And the corresponding commit, from September 2004: 
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/307fa78107c39ffda1eb4ad18201d25650354c4e

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