diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 6e52021..1cd553c 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -107,11 +107,8 @@
     decimal -   Test the decimal module against a large suite that
                 verifies compliance with standards.
 
-    compiler -  Test the compiler package by compiling all the source
-                in the standard library and test suite.  This takes
-                a long time.  Enabling this resource also allows
-                test_tokenize to verify round-trip lexing on every
-                file in the test library.
+    compiler -  Allow test_tokenize to verify round-trip lexing on
+                every file in the test library.
 
     subprocess  Run all tests for the subprocess module.
 
@@ -987,7 +984,6 @@
         test_poll
         test_pty
         test_pwd
-        test_strop
         test_sqlite
         test_startfile
         test_sunaudiodev
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index b1d6790..64b13b7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 from test.test_support import (TESTFN, unlink, run_unittest,
                                 guard_warnings_filter)
-from test.test_pep352 import ignore_message_warning
 
 # XXX This is not really enough, each *operation* should be tested!
 
@@ -205,115 +204,113 @@
         # test that exception attributes are happy
 
         exceptionList = [
-            (BaseException, (), {'message' : '', 'args' : ()}),
-            (BaseException, (1, ), {'message' : 1, 'args' : (1,)}),
+            (BaseException, (), {'args' : ()}),
+            (BaseException, (1, ), {'args' : (1,)}),
             (BaseException, ('foo',),
-                {'message' : 'foo', 'args' : ('foo',)}),
+                {'args' : ('foo',)}),
             (BaseException, ('foo', 1),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('foo', 1)}),
+                {'args' : ('foo', 1)}),
             (SystemExit, ('foo',),
-                {'message' : 'foo', 'args' : ('foo',), 'code' : 'foo'}),
+                {'args' : ('foo',), 'code' : 'foo'}),
             (IOError, ('foo',),
-                {'message' : 'foo', 'args' : ('foo',), 'filename' : None,
+                {'args' : ('foo',), 'filename' : None,
                  'errno' : None, 'strerror' : None}),
             (IOError, ('foo', 'bar'),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('foo', 'bar'), 'filename' : None,
+                {'args' : ('foo', 'bar'), 'filename' : None,
                  'errno' : 'foo', 'strerror' : 'bar'}),
             (IOError, ('foo', 'bar', 'baz'),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('foo', 'bar'), 'filename' : 'baz',
+                {'args' : ('foo', 'bar'), 'filename' : 'baz',
                  'errno' : 'foo', 'strerror' : 'bar'}),
             (IOError, ('foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'quux'),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'quux')}),
+                {'args' : ('foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'quux')}),
             (EnvironmentError, ('errnoStr', 'strErrorStr', 'filenameStr'),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('errnoStr', 'strErrorStr'),
+                {'args' : ('errnoStr', 'strErrorStr'),
                  'strerror' : 'strErrorStr', 'errno' : 'errnoStr',
                  'filename' : 'filenameStr'}),
             (EnvironmentError, (1, 'strErrorStr', 'filenameStr'),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : (1, 'strErrorStr'), 'errno' : 1,
+                {'args' : (1, 'strErrorStr'), 'errno' : 1,
                  'strerror' : 'strErrorStr', 'filename' : 'filenameStr'}),
-            (SyntaxError, (), {'message' : '', 'msg' : None, 'text' : None,
+            (SyntaxError, (), {'msg' : None, 'text' : None,
                 'filename' : None, 'lineno' : None, 'offset' : None,
                 'print_file_and_line' : None}),
             (SyntaxError, ('msgStr',),
-                {'message' : 'msgStr', 'args' : ('msgStr',), 'text' : None,
+                {'args' : ('msgStr',), 'text' : None,
                  'print_file_and_line' : None, 'msg' : 'msgStr',
                  'filename' : None, 'lineno' : None, 'offset' : None}),
             (SyntaxError, ('msgStr', ('filenameStr', 'linenoStr', 'offsetStr',
                            'textStr')),
-                {'message' : '', 'offset' : 'offsetStr', 'text' : 'textStr',
+                {'offset' : 'offsetStr', 'text' : 'textStr',
                  'args' : ('msgStr', ('filenameStr', 'linenoStr',
                                       'offsetStr', 'textStr')),
                  'print_file_and_line' : None, 'msg' : 'msgStr',
                  'filename' : 'filenameStr', 'lineno' : 'linenoStr'}),
             (SyntaxError, ('msgStr', 'filenameStr', 'linenoStr', 'offsetStr',
                            'textStr', 'print_file_and_lineStr'),
-                {'message' : '', 'text' : None,
+                {'text' : None,
                  'args' : ('msgStr', 'filenameStr', 'linenoStr', 'offsetStr',
                            'textStr', 'print_file_and_lineStr'),
                  'print_file_and_line' : None, 'msg' : 'msgStr',
                  'filename' : None, 'lineno' : None, 'offset' : None}),
-            (UnicodeError, (), {'message' : '', 'args' : (),}),
+            (UnicodeError, (), {'args' : (),}),
             (UnicodeEncodeError, (str8('ascii'), 'a', 0, 1,
                                   str8('ordinal not in range')),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('ascii', 'a', 0, 1,
+                {'args' : ('ascii', 'a', 0, 1,
                                            'ordinal not in range'),
                  'encoding' : 'ascii', 'object' : 'a',
                  'start' : 0, 'reason' : 'ordinal not in range'}),
             (UnicodeDecodeError, (str8('ascii'), b'\xff', 0, 1,
                                   str8('ordinal not in range')),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('ascii', b'\xff', 0, 1,
+                {'args' : ('ascii', b'\xff', 0, 1,
                                            'ordinal not in range'),
                  'encoding' : 'ascii', 'object' : b'\xff',
                  'start' : 0, 'reason' : 'ordinal not in range'}),
             (UnicodeTranslateError, ("\u3042", 0, 1, str8("ouch")),
-                {'message' : '', 'args' : ('\u3042', 0, 1, 'ouch'),
+                {'args' : ('\u3042', 0, 1, 'ouch'),
                  'object' : '\u3042', 'reason' : 'ouch',
                  'start' : 0, 'end' : 1}),
         ]
         try:
             exceptionList.append(
                 (WindowsError, (1, 'strErrorStr', 'filenameStr'),
-                    {'message' : '', 'args' : (1, 'strErrorStr'),
+                    {'args' : (1, 'strErrorStr'),
                      'strerror' : 'strErrorStr', 'winerror' : 1,
                      'errno' : 22, 'filename' : 'filenameStr'})
             )
         except NameError:
             pass
 
-        with guard_warnings_filter():
-            ignore_message_warning()
-            for exc, args, expected in exceptionList:
-                try:
-                    e = exc(*args)
-                except:
-                    print("\nexc=%r, args=%r" % (exc, args))
-                    raise
-                else:
-                    # Verify module name
-                    self.assertEquals(type(e).__module__, '__builtin__')
-                    # Verify no ref leaks in Exc_str()
-                    s = str(e)
-                    for checkArgName in expected:
-                        value = getattr(e, checkArgName)
-                        self.assertEquals(repr(value),
-                                          repr(expected[checkArgName]),
-                                          '%r.%s == %r, expected %r' % (
-                                          e, checkArgName,
-                                          value, expected[checkArgName]))
+        for exc, args, expected in exceptionList:
+            try:
+                e = exc(*args)
+            except:
+                print("\nexc=%r, args=%r" % (exc, args))
+                raise
+            else:
+                # Verify module name
+                self.assertEquals(type(e).__module__, '__builtin__')
+                # Verify no ref leaks in Exc_str()
+                s = str(e)
+                for checkArgName in expected:
+                    value = getattr(e, checkArgName)
+                    self.assertEquals(repr(value),
+                                      repr(expected[checkArgName]),
+                                      '%r.%s == %r, expected %r' % (
+                                      e, checkArgName,
+                                      value, expected[checkArgName]))
 
-                    # test for pickling support
-                    for p in pickle, cPickle:
-                        if p is None:
-                            continue # cPickle not found -- skip it
-                        for protocol in range(p.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL + 1):
-                            s = p.dumps(e, protocol)
-                            new = p.loads(s)
-                            for checkArgName in expected:
-                                got = repr(getattr(new, checkArgName))
-                                want = repr(expected[checkArgName])
-                                self.assertEquals(got, want,
-                                                  'pickled "%r", attribute "%s' %
-                                                  (e, checkArgName))
+                # test for pickling support
+                for p in pickle, cPickle:
+                    if p is None:
+                        continue # cPickle not found -- skip it
+                    for protocol in range(p.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL + 1):
+                        s = p.dumps(e, protocol)
+                        new = p.loads(s)
+                        for checkArgName in expected:
+                            got = repr(getattr(new, checkArgName))
+                            want = repr(expected[checkArgName])
+                            self.assertEquals(got, want,
+                                              'pickled "%r", attribute "%s' %
+                                              (e, checkArgName))
 
     def testKeywordArgs(self):
         # test that builtin exception don't take keyword args,
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pep352.py b/Lib/test/test_pep352.py
index b372ce9..90766ba 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pep352.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pep352.py
@@ -5,12 +5,6 @@
 import os
 from platform import system as platform_system
 
-def ignore_message_warning():
-    """Ignore the DeprecationWarning for BaseException.message."""
-    warnings.resetwarnings()
-    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "BaseException.message",
-                            DeprecationWarning)
-
 
 class ExceptionClassTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -21,12 +15,10 @@
         self.failUnless(issubclass(Exception, object))
 
     def verify_instance_interface(self, ins):
-        with guard_warnings_filter():
-            ignore_message_warning()
-            for attr in ("args", "message", "__str__", "__repr__"):
-                self.failUnless(hasattr(ins, attr),
-                        "%s missing %s attribute" %
-                            (ins.__class__.__name__, attr))
+        for attr in ("args", "__str__", "__repr__"):
+            self.failUnless(hasattr(ins, attr),
+                    "%s missing %s attribute" %
+                        (ins.__class__.__name__, attr))
 
     def test_inheritance(self):
         # Make sure the inheritance hierarchy matches the documentation
@@ -89,7 +81,7 @@
             inheritance_tree.close()
         self.failUnlessEqual(len(exc_set), 0, "%s not accounted for" % exc_set)
 
-    interface_tests = ("length", "args", "message", "str", "repr")
+    interface_tests = ("length", "args", "str", "repr")
 
     def interface_test_driver(self, results):
         for test_name, (given, expected) in zip(self.interface_tests, results):
@@ -100,57 +92,28 @@
         # Make sure interface works properly when given a single argument
         arg = "spam"
         exc = Exception(arg)
-        with guard_warnings_filter():
-            ignore_message_warning()
-            results = ([len(exc.args), 1], [exc.args[0], arg],
-                       [exc.message, arg],
-                       [str(exc), str(arg)],
-                [repr(exc), exc.__class__.__name__ + repr(exc.args)])
-            self.interface_test_driver(results)
+        results = ([len(exc.args), 1], [exc.args[0], arg],
+                   [str(exc), str(arg)],
+            [repr(exc), exc.__class__.__name__ + repr(exc.args)])
+        self.interface_test_driver(results)
 
     def test_interface_multi_arg(self):
         # Make sure interface correct when multiple arguments given
         arg_count = 3
         args = tuple(range(arg_count))
         exc = Exception(*args)
-        with guard_warnings_filter():
-            ignore_message_warning()
-            results = ([len(exc.args), arg_count], [exc.args, args],
-                    [exc.message, ''], [str(exc), str(args)],
-                    [repr(exc), exc.__class__.__name__ + repr(exc.args)])
-            self.interface_test_driver(results)
+        results = ([len(exc.args), arg_count], [exc.args, args],
+                [str(exc), str(args)],
+                [repr(exc), exc.__class__.__name__ + repr(exc.args)])
+        self.interface_test_driver(results)
 
     def test_interface_no_arg(self):
         # Make sure that with no args that interface is correct
         exc = Exception()
-        with guard_warnings_filter():
-            ignore_message_warning()
-            results = ([len(exc.args), 0], [exc.args, tuple()],
-                    [exc.message, ''],
-                    [str(exc), ''],
-                    [repr(exc), exc.__class__.__name__ + '()'])
-            self.interface_test_driver(results)
-
-    def test_message_deprecation(self):
-        # As of Python 2.6, BaseException.message is deprecated.
-        with guard_warnings_filter():
-            warnings.resetwarnings()
-            warnings.filterwarnings('error')
-
-            try:
-                BaseException().message
-            except DeprecationWarning:
-                pass
-            else:
-                self.fail("BaseException.message not deprecated")
-
-            exc = BaseException()
-            try:
-                exc.message = ''
-            except DeprecationWarning:
-                pass
-            else:
-                self.fail("BaseException.message assignment not deprecated")
+        results = ([len(exc.args), 0], [exc.args, tuple()],
+                [str(exc), ''],
+                [repr(exc), exc.__class__.__name__ + '()'])
+        self.interface_test_driver(results)
 
 class UsageTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_strop.py b/Lib/test/test_strop.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 491d223..0000000
--- a/Lib/test/test_strop.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-import warnings
-warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "strop functions are obsolete;",
-                        DeprecationWarning,
-                        r'test.test_strop|unittest')
-import strop
-import unittest
-from test import test_support
-
-
-class StropFunctionTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    def test_maketrans(self):
-        self.assert_(strop.maketrans("abc", "xyz") == transtable)
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, strop.maketrans, "abc", "xyzq")
-
-
-transtable = b'\000\001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\034\035\036\037 !"#$%&\'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`xyzdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~\177\200\201\202\203\204\205\206\207\210\211\212\213\214\215\216\217\220\221\222\223\224\225\226\227\230\231\232\233\234\235\236\237\240\241\242\243\244\245\246\247\250\251\252\253\254\255\256\257\260\261\262\263\264\265\266\267\270\271\272\273\274\275\276\277\300\301\302\303\304\305\306\307\310\311\312\313\314\315\316\317\320\321\322\323\324\325\326\327\330\331\332\333\334\335\336\337\340\341\342\343\344\345\346\347\350\351\352\353\354\355\356\357\360\361\362\363\364\365\366\367\370\371\372\373\374\375\376\377'
-
-
-def test_main():
-    test_support.run_unittest(StropFunctionTestCase)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    test_main()