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  r79539 | florent.xicluna | 2010-04-01 01:01:03 +0300 (Thu, 01 Apr 2010) | 2 lines

  Replace catch_warnings with check_warnings when it makes sense.  Use assertRaises context manager to simplify some tests.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 6e30233..f8a5647 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-import sys
-sys.path = ['.'] + sys.path
-
-from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest
+from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest, import_module
 import re
 from re import Scanner
 import sys, os, traceback
@@ -450,11 +447,8 @@
         import cPickle
         self.pickle_test(cPickle)
         # old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in sre module
-        import warnings
-        with warnings.catch_warnings():
-            warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "The sre module is deprecated",
-                                    DeprecationWarning)
-            from sre import _compile
+        import_module("sre", deprecated=True)
+        from sre import _compile
 
     def pickle_test(self, pickle):
         oldpat = re.compile('a(?:b|(c|e){1,2}?|d)+?(.)')