I can't reproduce this on the master branch, with the latest checkout. Was this the branch your failure occurred on?

$ ./python -m test.regrtest -vuall test_venv
== CPython 3.7.0a0 (heads/master:f60c9e5, Apr 21 2017, 07:19:01) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
==   Linux-4.4.0-72-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid little-endian
==   hash algorithm: siphash24 64bit
==  cwd: /home/vinay/projects/python/master/build/test_python_4297
==  encodings: locale=UTF-8, FS=utf-8
Testing with flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1, isolated=0)
Run tests sequentially
0:00:00 [1/1] test_venv
test_defaults (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_executable (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_executable_symlinks (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_isolation (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_overwrite_existing (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_prefixes (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_prompt (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_symlinking (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_unoverwritable_fails (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_upgrade (test.test_venv.BasicTest) ... ok
test_devnull (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok
test_explicit_no_pip (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok
test_no_pip_by_default (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok
test_with_pip (test.test_venv.EnsurePipTest) ... ok

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 14 tests in 9.336s

OK
1 test OK.