Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> It /does/ break backwards compatibility, but it seems that previous
> logic was incorrect (based on my upcoming checking for consistency
> between RFCs). As such, I'm not sure that it should be fixed < 3.5.
> Thoughts?

Actually, the logic seems to be correct according to RFC 1808 (which the 
variable names in the tests seem to hint at, as well). I think it's fine to 
upgrade the semantics to newer RFCs, but we should only do it in 3.5 indeed.

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stage: needs patch -> patch review
versions:  -Python 2.7, Python 3.4

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