diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_longexp b/Lib/test/output/test_longexp
index 392707c..bbdd70c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_longexp
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_longexp
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 test_longexp
-Caught SyntaxError for long expression: expression too long (line 1)
+65580
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_longexp.py b/Lib/test/test_longexp.py
index 38eb79b..2d57285 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_longexp.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_longexp.py
@@ -1,18 +1,4 @@
-REPS = 8192
+REPS = 65580
 
-try:
-    eval("2+2+" * REPS + "+3.14159265")
-except SyntaxError, msg:
-    print "Caught SyntaxError for long expression:", msg
-else:
-    print "Long expression did not raise SyntaxError"
-
-## This test prints "s_push: parser stack overflow" on stderr,
-    ## which seems to confuse the test harness
-##try:
-##    eval("(2+" * REPS + "0" + ")" * REPS)
-##except SyntaxError:
-##    pass
-##else:
-##    print "Deeply nested expression did not raised SyntaxError"
-
+l = eval("[" + "2," * REPS + "]") 
+print len(l)