diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
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+from test_support import verbose
+import tokenize, os, sys
+
+def findfile(file):
+	if os.path.isabs(file): return file
+	path = sys.path
+	try:
+	    path = [os.path.dirname(__file__)] + path
+	except NameError:
+	    pass
+	for dn in path:
+		fn = os.path.join(dn, file)
+		if os.path.exists(fn): return fn
+	return file
+
+if verbose:
+    print 'starting...'
+file = open(findfile('tokenize_tests.py'))
+tokenize.tokenize(file.readline)
+if verbose:
+    print 'finished'
+