diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi.py b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
index 4393e3c..5eb3f7d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
@@ -116,127 +116,6 @@
         self.assertEqual(_testcapi.get_indices(slice(10, 20.1, 1L), 100), None)
 
 
-class SkipitemTest(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    def test_skipitem(self):
-        """
-        If this test failed, you probably added a new "format unit"
-        in Python/getargs.c, but neglected to update our poor friend
-        skipitem() in the same file.  (If so, shame on you!)
-
-        With a few exceptions**, this function brute-force tests all
-        printable ASCII*** characters (32 to 126 inclusive) as format units,
-        checking to see that PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() return consistent
-        errors both when the unit is attempted to be used and when it is
-        skipped.  If the format unit doesn't exist, we'll get one of two
-        specific error messages (one for used, one for skipped); if it does
-        exist we *won't* get that error--we'll get either no error or some
-        other error.  If we get the specific "does not exist" error for one
-        test and not for the other, there's a mismatch, and the test fails.
-
-           ** Some format units have special funny semantics and it would
-              be difficult to accommodate them here.  Since these are all
-              well-established and properly skipped in skipitem() we can
-              get away with not testing them--this test is really intended
-              to catch *new* format units.
-
-          *** Python C source files must be ASCII.  Therefore it's impossible
-              to have non-ASCII format units.
-
-        """
-        empty_tuple = ()
-        tuple_1 = (0,)
-        dict_b = {'b':1}
-        keywords = ["a", "b"]
-
-        for i in range(32, 127):
-            c = chr(i)
-
-            # skip parentheses, the error reporting is inconsistent about them
-            # skip 'e', it's always a two-character code
-            # skip '|', it doesn't represent arguments anyway
-            if c in '()e|':
-                continue
-
-            # test the format unit when not skipped
-            format = c + "i"
-            try:
-                _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords(tuple_1, dict_b,
-                    format, keywords)
-                when_not_skipped = False
-            except TypeError as e:
-                s = "argument 1 (impossible<bad format char>)"
-                when_not_skipped = (str(e) == s)
-            except RuntimeError:
-                when_not_skipped = False
-
-            # test the format unit when skipped
-            optional_format = "|" + format
-            try:
-                _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords(empty_tuple, dict_b,
-                    optional_format, keywords)
-                when_skipped = False
-            except RuntimeError as e:
-                s = "impossible<bad format char>: '{}'".format(format)
-                when_skipped = (str(e) == s)
-
-            message = ("test_skipitem_parity: "
-                "detected mismatch between convertsimple and skipitem "
-                "for format unit '{}' ({}), not skipped {}, skipped {}".format(
-                    c, i, when_skipped, when_not_skipped))
-            self.assertIs(when_skipped, when_not_skipped, message)
-
-    def test_skipitem_with_suffix(self):
-        parse = _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords
-        empty_tuple = ()
-        tuple_1 = (0,)
-        dict_b = {'b':1}
-        keywords = ["a", "b"]
-
-        supported = ('s#', 's*', 'z#', 'z*', 'u#', 't#', 'w#', 'w*')
-        for c in string.ascii_letters:
-            for c2 in '#*':
-                f = c + c2
-                optional_format = "|" + f + "i"
-                if f in supported:
-                    parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
-                else:
-                    with self.assertRaisesRegexp((RuntimeError, TypeError),
-                                'impossible<bad format char>'):
-                        parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
-
-        for c in map(chr, range(32, 128)):
-            f = 'e' + c
-            optional_format = "|" + f + "i"
-            if c in 'st':
-                parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
-            else:
-                with self.assertRaisesRegexp(RuntimeError,
-                            'impossible<bad format char>'):
-                    parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
-
-    def test_parse_tuple_and_keywords(self):
-        # Test handling errors in the parse_tuple_and_keywords helper itself
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (), {}, 42, [])
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (), {}, '', 42)
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (), {}, '', [''] * 42)
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (), {}, '', [42])
-
-    def test_bad_use(self):
-        # Test handling invalid format and keywords in
-        # PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (1,), {}, '||O', ['a'])
-        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (1,), {}, '|O', ['a', 'b'])
-        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
-                          (1,), {}, '|OO', ['a'])
-
-
 @unittest.skipUnless(threading and thread, 'Threading required for this test.')
 class TestThreadState(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -262,19 +141,15 @@
         t.join()
 
 
-def test_main():
-    for name in dir(_testcapi):
-        if name.startswith('test_'):
-            test = getattr(_testcapi, name)
-            if support.verbose:
-                print "internal", name
-            try:
-                test()
-            except _testcapi.error:
-                raise support.TestFailed, sys.exc_info()[1]
+class Test_testcapi(unittest.TestCase):
+    locals().update((name, getattr(_testcapi, name))
+                    for name in dir(_testcapi)
+                    if name.startswith('test_') and not name.endswith('_code'))
 
-    support.run_unittest(CAPITest, TestPendingCalls, SkipitemTest,
-                         TestThreadState, TestGetIndices)
+
+def test_main():
+    support.run_unittest(CAPITest, TestPendingCalls,
+                         TestThreadState, TestGetIndices, Test_testcapi)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     test_main()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_getargs2.py b/Lib/test/test_getargs2.py
index e0efcaa..7f819fb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_getargs2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_getargs2.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import unittest
 import math
+import string
 import sys
 from test import test_support
 # Skip this test if the _testcapi module isn't available.
-test_support.import_module('_testcapi')
+_testcapi = test_support.import_module('_testcapi')
 from _testcapi import getargs_keywords
 import warnings
 
@@ -799,12 +800,6 @@
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, getargs_u_hash, None)
 
 
-def test_main():
-    tests = [Signed_TestCase, Unsigned_TestCase, LongLong_TestCase,
-             Tuple_TestCase, Keywords_TestCase,
-             Bytes_TestCase, String_TestCase, Unicode_TestCase]
-    test_support.run_unittest(*tests)
-
 class Object_TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_S(self):
         from _testcapi import getargs_S
@@ -840,5 +835,142 @@
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, getargs_U, buffer(obj))
 
 
+class SkipitemTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_skipitem(self):
+        """
+        If this test failed, you probably added a new "format unit"
+        in Python/getargs.c, but neglected to update our poor friend
+        skipitem() in the same file.  (If so, shame on you!)
+
+        With a few exceptions**, this function brute-force tests all
+        printable ASCII*** characters (32 to 126 inclusive) as format units,
+        checking to see that PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() return consistent
+        errors both when the unit is attempted to be used and when it is
+        skipped.  If the format unit doesn't exist, we'll get one of two
+        specific error messages (one for used, one for skipped); if it does
+        exist we *won't* get that error--we'll get either no error or some
+        other error.  If we get the specific "does not exist" error for one
+        test and not for the other, there's a mismatch, and the test fails.
+
+           ** Some format units have special funny semantics and it would
+              be difficult to accommodate them here.  Since these are all
+              well-established and properly skipped in skipitem() we can
+              get away with not testing them--this test is really intended
+              to catch *new* format units.
+
+          *** Python C source files must be ASCII.  Therefore it's impossible
+              to have non-ASCII format units.
+
+        """
+        empty_tuple = ()
+        tuple_1 = (0,)
+        dict_b = {'b':1}
+        keywords = ["a", "b"]
+
+        for i in range(32, 127):
+            c = chr(i)
+
+            # skip parentheses, the error reporting is inconsistent about them
+            # skip 'e', it's always a two-character code
+            # skip '|', it doesn't represent arguments anyway
+            if c in '()e|':
+                continue
+
+            # test the format unit when not skipped
+            format = c + "i"
+            try:
+                _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords(tuple_1, dict_b,
+                    format, keywords)
+                when_not_skipped = False
+            except TypeError as e:
+                s = "argument 1 (impossible<bad format char>)"
+                when_not_skipped = (str(e) == s)
+            except RuntimeError:
+                when_not_skipped = False
+
+            # test the format unit when skipped
+            optional_format = "|" + format
+            try:
+                _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords(empty_tuple, dict_b,
+                    optional_format, keywords)
+                when_skipped = False
+            except RuntimeError as e:
+                s = "impossible<bad format char>: '{}'".format(format)
+                when_skipped = (str(e) == s)
+
+            message = ("test_skipitem_parity: "
+                "detected mismatch between convertsimple and skipitem "
+                "for format unit '{}' ({}), not skipped {}, skipped {}".format(
+                    c, i, when_skipped, when_not_skipped))
+            self.assertIs(when_skipped, when_not_skipped, message)
+
+    def test_skipitem_with_suffix(self):
+        parse = _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords
+        empty_tuple = ()
+        tuple_1 = (0,)
+        dict_b = {'b':1}
+        keywords = ["a", "b"]
+
+        supported = ('s#', 's*', 'z#', 'z*', 'u#', 't#', 'w#', 'w*')
+        for c in string.ascii_letters:
+            for c2 in '#*':
+                f = c + c2
+                optional_format = "|" + f + "i"
+                if f in supported:
+                    parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
+                else:
+                    with self.assertRaisesRegexp((RuntimeError, TypeError),
+                                'impossible<bad format char>'):
+                        parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
+
+        for c in map(chr, range(32, 128)):
+            f = 'e' + c
+            optional_format = "|" + f + "i"
+            if c in 'st':
+                parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
+            else:
+                with self.assertRaisesRegexp(RuntimeError,
+                            'impossible<bad format char>'):
+                    parse(empty_tuple, dict_b, optional_format, keywords)
+
+
+class ParseTupleAndKeywords_Test(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_parse_tuple_and_keywords(self):
+        # Test handling errors in the parse_tuple_and_keywords helper itself
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (), {}, 42, [])
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (), {}, '', 42)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (), {}, '', [''] * 42)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (), {}, '', [42])
+
+    def test_bad_use(self):
+        # Test handling invalid format and keywords in
+        # PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (1,), {}, '||O', ['a'])
+        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (1,), {}, '|O', ['a', 'b'])
+        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, _testcapi.parse_tuple_and_keywords,
+                          (1,), {}, '|OO', ['a'])
+
+
+class Test_testcapi(unittest.TestCase):
+    locals().update((name, getattr(_testcapi, name))
+                    for name in dir(_testcapi)
+                    if name.startswith('test_') and name.endswith('_code'))
+
+
+def test_main():
+    tests = [Signed_TestCase, Unsigned_TestCase, LongLong_TestCase,
+             Tuple_TestCase, Keywords_TestCase,
+             Bytes_TestCase, String_TestCase, Unicode_TestCase,
+             SkipitemTest, ParseTupleAndKeywords_Test, Test_testcapi]
+    test_support.run_unittest(*tests)
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     test_main()