diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cgi.py b/Lib/test/test_cgi.py
index 349d5e9..c9cf095 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cgi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cgi.py
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
         # if we're not chunking properly, readline is only called twice
         # (by read_binary); if we are chunking properly, it will be called 5 times
         # as long as the chunksize is 1 << 16.
-        self.assertTrue(f.numcalls > 2)
+        self.assertGreater(f.numcalls, 2)
 
     def test_fieldstorage_invalid(self):
         fs = cgi.FieldStorage()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py b/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py
index 15cb336..b3d8f7e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
 
     def testTimeoutDefault(self):
         # default -- use global socket timeout
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
         try:
             ftp = ftplib.FTP(HOST)
@@ -752,13 +752,13 @@
 
     def testTimeoutNone(self):
         # no timeout -- do not use global socket timeout
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
         try:
             ftp = ftplib.FTP(HOST, timeout=None)
         finally:
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(None)
-        self.assertTrue(ftp.sock.gettimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(ftp.sock.gettimeout())
         self.evt.wait()
         ftp.close()
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index f11fac3..bb9d75f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
         conn.sock = FakeSocket(None)
         conn.putrequest('GET','/')
         conn.putheader('Content-length',42)
-        self.assertTrue('Content-length: 42' in conn._buffer)
+        self.assertIn('Content-length: 42', conn._buffer)
 
     def test_ipv6host_header(self):
         # Default host header on IPv6 transaction should wrapped by [] if
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@
         HTTPConnection and into the socket.
         '''
         # default -- use global socket timeout
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
         try:
             httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(HOST, TimeoutTest.PORT)
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@
         httpConn.close()
 
         # no timeout -- do not use global socket default
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
         try:
             httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(HOST, TimeoutTest.PORT,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index d0ebb28..359694a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 
     def verify_http_server_response(self, response):
         match = self.HTTPResponseMatch.search(response)
-        self.assertTrue(match is not None)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(match)
 
     def test_http_1_1(self):
         result = self.send_typical_request('GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n')
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index fa88b61..0032865 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@
 #     def testTimeoutNone(self):
 #         # global default timeout is ignored
 #         import socket
-#         self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+#         self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
 #         socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
 #         try:
 #             ftp = urllib.ftpwrapper("myuser", "mypass", "localhost", 9093, [])
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@
 #     def testTimeoutDefault(self):
 #         # global default timeout is used
 #         import socket
-#         self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+#         self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
 #         socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
 #         try:
 #             ftp = urllib.ftpwrapper("myuser", "mypass", "localhost", 9093, [])
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index eac9950..39a0132 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -591,8 +591,8 @@
                 self.assertIsInstance(args[0], Request)
                 # response from opener.open is None, because there's no
                 # handler that defines http_open to handle it
-                self.assertTrue(args[1] is None or
-                             isinstance(args[1], MockResponse))
+                if args[1] is not None:
+                    self.assertIsInstance(args[1], MockResponse)
 
 
 def sanepathname2url(path):
@@ -924,7 +924,8 @@
                            MockHeaders({"location": to_url}))
                 except urllib2.HTTPError:
                     # 307 in response to POST requires user OK
-                    self.assertTrue(code == 307 and data is not None)
+                    self.assertEqual(code, 307)
+                    self.assertIsNotNone(data)
                 self.assertEqual(o.req.get_full_url(), to_url)
                 try:
                     self.assertEqual(o.req.get_method(), "GET")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
index d22b59e..4f81c28 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2net.py
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@
         # delve deep into response to fetch socket._socketobject
         response = _urlopen_with_retry("http://www.python.org/")
         abused_fileobject = response.fp
-        self.assertTrue(abused_fileobject.__class__ is socket._fileobject)
+        self.assertIs(abused_fileobject.__class__, socket._fileobject)
         httpresponse = abused_fileobject._sock
-        self.assertTrue(httpresponse.__class__ is httplib.HTTPResponse)
+        self.assertIs(httpresponse.__class__, httplib.HTTPResponse)
         fileobject = httpresponse.fp
-        self.assertTrue(fileobject.__class__ is socket._fileobject)
+        self.assertIs(fileobject.__class__, socket._fileobject)
 
         self.assertTrue(not fileobject.closed)
         response.close()
@@ -250,14 +250,14 @@
 
 class TimeoutTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_http_basic(self):
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         url = "http://www.python.org"
         with test_support.transient_internet(url, timeout=None):
             u = _urlopen_with_retry(url)
-            self.assertTrue(u.fp._sock.fp._sock.gettimeout() is None)
+            self.assertIsNone(u.fp._sock.fp._sock.gettimeout())
 
     def test_http_default_timeout(self):
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         url = "http://www.python.org"
         with test_support.transient_internet(url):
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(60)
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
             self.assertEqual(u.fp._sock.fp._sock.gettimeout(), 60)
 
     def test_http_no_timeout(self):
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         url = "http://www.python.org"
         with test_support.transient_internet(url):
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(60)
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
                 u = _urlopen_with_retry(url, timeout=None)
             finally:
                 socket.setdefaulttimeout(None)
-            self.assertTrue(u.fp._sock.fp._sock.gettimeout() is None)
+            self.assertIsNone(u.fp._sock.fp._sock.gettimeout())
 
     def test_http_timeout(self):
         url = "http://www.python.org"
@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@
     FTP_HOST = "ftp://ftp.mirror.nl/pub/gnu/"
 
     def test_ftp_basic(self):
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         with test_support.transient_internet(self.FTP_HOST, timeout=None):
             u = _urlopen_with_retry(self.FTP_HOST)
-            self.assertTrue(u.fp.fp._sock.gettimeout() is None)
+            self.assertIsNone(u.fp.fp._sock.gettimeout())
 
     def test_ftp_default_timeout(self):
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout())
         with test_support.transient_internet(self.FTP_HOST):
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(60)
             try:
@@ -303,14 +303,14 @@
             self.assertEqual(u.fp.fp._sock.gettimeout(), 60)
 
     def test_ftp_no_timeout(self):
-        self.assertTrue(socket.getdefaulttimeout() is None)
+        self.assertIsNone(socket.getdefaulttimeout(),)
         with test_support.transient_internet(self.FTP_HOST):
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(60)
             try:
                 u = _urlopen_with_retry(self.FTP_HOST, timeout=None)
             finally:
                 socket.setdefaulttimeout(None)
-            self.assertTrue(u.fp.fp._sock.gettimeout() is None)
+            self.assertIsNone(u.fp.fp._sock.gettimeout())
 
     def test_ftp_timeout(self):
         with test_support.transient_internet(self.FTP_HOST):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_wsgiref.py b/Lib/test/test_wsgiref.py
index 88d4a3d..401d784 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_wsgiref.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_wsgiref.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
         # Check existing value
         env = {key:alt}
         util.setup_testing_defaults(env)
-        self.assertTrue(env[key] is alt)
+        self.assertIs(env[key], alt)
 
     def checkCrossDefault(self,key,value,**kw):
         util.setup_testing_defaults(kw)
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(Headers(test[:]).keys(), ['x'])
         self.assertEqual(Headers(test[:]).values(), ['y'])
         self.assertEqual(Headers(test[:]).items(), test)
-        self.assertFalse(Headers(test).items() is test)  # must be copy!
+        self.assertIsNot(Headers(test).items(), test)  # must be copy!
 
         h=Headers([])
         del h['foo']   # should not raise an error