diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
@@ -1059,6 +1059,16 @@ def test_splithost(self):
        self.assertEqual(splithost("//example.net/file#"),
                         ('example.net', '/file#'))

    def test_splituser(self):
        splituser = urllib.parse._splituser
        self.assertEqual(splituser('User:Pass@www.python.org:080'),

diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ def _splithost(url):
    """splithost('//host[:port]/path') --> 'host[:port]', '/path'."""
    global _hostprog
    if _hostprog is None:
-        _hostprog = re.compile('//([^/#?]*)(.*)', re.DOTALL)

    match = _hostprog.match(url)
    if match:

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-14-36-23.bpo-35906.TU53mt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-24-14-36-23.bpo-35906.TU53mt.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@