Huh, that's inconsistent. I guess they changed it to avoid the security problem ...

stavros on Feb 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure

Huh, that's inconsistent. I guess they changed it to avoid the security problem and forgot to change the docs? Or maybe they didn't update 2.7 at all and it still behaves that way.