diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index d1c0f68..c98d61f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
             [ '\r\n', input_lines ],
         ]
 
-        encodings = ('utf-8', 'bz2')
+        encodings = ('utf-8', 'latin-1')
 
         # Try a range of pad sizes to test the case where \r is the last
         # character in TextIOWrapper._pending_line.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
index f8b5bdf..8c2eb23 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@
         write("a" * 35)
         write("b" * 35)
         seek(0, 0)
-        self.failUnless(read(70) == 'a'*35 + 'b'*35)
+        self.assertEqual(read(70), 'a'*35 + 'b'*35)
 
 test_classes.append(test_SpooledTemporaryFile)