diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index 753cba9961d7a75a1f0c7e1873ca5e7c86c48aea..cae5f83257fc1bc33640a23fd5b1a0f5e40dca95 100644
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ VER_DEP_MODULES = {
                                         'compile.extsetslice',
                                         'compile.extdelslice',
                                         'run.special_methods_T561_py2']),
+    (3,3): (operator.ge, lambda x: x in ['run.initial_file_path', # new importlib currently fails to load __init__.so
+                                         ]),
 }
 
 # files that should not be converted to Python 3 code with 2to3