diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 6160b3d..85e784b 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@
 
     compiler -  Test the compiler package by compiling all the source
                 in the standard library and test suite.  This takes
-                a long time.
+                a long time.  Enabling this resource also allows
+                test_tokenize to verify round-trip lexing on every
+                file in the test library.
 
     subprocess  Run all tests for the subprocess module.
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
index d217404..2ce435f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
@@ -1,12 +1,82 @@
-from test.test_support import verbose, findfile
-import tokenize, os, sys
+from test.test_support import verbose, findfile, is_resource_enabled
+import os, glob, random
+from tokenize import (tokenize, generate_tokens, untokenize,
+                      NUMBER, NAME, OP, STRING)
 
 if verbose:
     print 'starting...'
 
 f = file(findfile('tokenize_tests' + os.extsep + 'txt'))
-tokenize.tokenize(f.readline)
+tokenize(f.readline)
 f.close()
 
+
+
+###### Test roundtrip for untokenize ##########################
+
+def test_roundtrip(f):
+    ## print 'Testing:', f
+    f = file(f)
+    try:
+        fulltok = list(generate_tokens(f.readline))
+    finally:
+        f.close()
+
+    t1 = [tok[:2] for tok in fulltok]
+    newtext = untokenize(t1)
+    readline = iter(newtext.splitlines(1)).next
+    t2 = [tok[:2] for tok in generate_tokens(readline)]
+    assert t1 == t2
+
+
+f = findfile('tokenize_tests' + os.extsep + 'txt')
+test_roundtrip(f)
+
+testdir = os.path.dirname(f) or os.curdir
+testfiles = glob.glob(testdir + os.sep + 'test*.py')
+if not is_resource_enabled('compiler'):
+    testfiles = random.sample(testfiles, 10)
+
+for f in testfiles:
+    test_roundtrip(f)
+
+
+
+###### Test example in the docs ###############################
+
+from decimal import Decimal
+from cStringIO import StringIO
+
+def decistmt(s):
+    """Substitute Decimals for floats in a string of statements.
+
+    >>> from decimal import Decimal
+    >>> s = 'print +21.3e-5*-.1234/81.7'
+    >>> decistmt(s)
+    "print +Decimal ('21.3e-5')*-Decimal ('.1234')/Decimal ('81.7')"
+
+    >>> exec(s)
+    -3.21716034272e-007
+    >>> exec(decistmt(s))
+    -3.217160342717258261933904529E-7
+
+    """
+    result = []
+    g = generate_tokens(StringIO(s).readline)   # tokenize the string
+    for toknum, tokval, _, _, _  in g:
+        if toknum == NUMBER and '.' in tokval:  # replace NUMBER tokens
+            result.extend([
+                (NAME, 'Decimal'),
+                (OP, '('),
+                (STRING, repr(tokval)),
+                (OP, ')')
+            ])
+        else:
+            result.append((toknum, tokval))
+    return untokenize(result)
+
+import doctest
+doctest.testmod()
+
 if verbose:
     print 'finished'