diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/utils.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/utils.py
index 0ff79cfbd4d78a..3fe2ecd2be6d0c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/utils.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/utils.py
@@ -550,10 +550,8 @@ def close_loop(loop):
         policy = support.maybe_get_event_loop_policy()
         if policy is not None:
             try:
-                with warnings.catch_warnings():
-                    warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning)
-                    watcher = policy._watcher
-            except NotImplementedError:
+                watcher = policy._watcher
+            except AttributeError:
                 # watcher is not implemented by EventLoopPolicy, e.g. Windows
                 pass
             else: