Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> added the comment:

I agree that the difference in behavior between the two functions is 
unfortunate, but that's unlikely to change now.

The least we can do is make the documentation precise. I'm attaching a proposed 
patch to Doc/c-api/object.rst

Nick/Terry/Georg - if this looks OK I can commit.

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keywords: +easy, patch
nosy: +eli.bendersky, ncoghlan, terry.reedy -Devin Jeanpierre
type:  -> behavior
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20413/issue10912.py3k.1.patch

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