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That is indeed a silent change in strategy.  Assigned to 
Raymond for pondering.

Making it act more like previous Pythons would involve 
changing Random.seed() to replace a when None with long
(time.time() * 256) before calling super(Random, self).seed
(a).  This is much harder to do in C because getting fractional 
seconds is a cross-platform mess (Python's time.time() hides 
that mess); then random_seed() should probably insist on 
having a real argument.  Alternatively, random_seed() could 
invoke Python's time.time() to get at fractional seconds 
datetimemodule.c's time_time() is one way to do that).