diff --git a/Lib/test/test_quopri.py b/Lib/test/test_quopri.py
index 24a2f44..56a793c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_quopri.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_quopri.py
@@ -182,14 +182,14 @@
         # On Windows, Python will output the result to stdout using
         # CRLF, as the mode of stdout is text mode. To compare this
         # with the expected result, we need to do a line-by-line comparison.
-        self.assert_(cout.splitlines() == e.splitlines())
+        self.assertEqual(cout.splitlines(), e.splitlines())
 
     def test_scriptdecode(self):
         (p, e) = self.STRINGS[-1]
         process = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-mquopri", "-d"],
                                    stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
         cout, cerr = process.communicate(e)
-        self.assert_(cout.splitlines() == p.splitlines())
+        self.assertEqual(cout.splitlines(), p.splitlines())
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(QuopriTestCase)