diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index d98faec..b433850 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import difflib
-import subprocess
 import __builtin__
 import re
 import pydoc
@@ -10,10 +9,10 @@
 import unittest
 import xml.etree
 import test.test_support
-from contextlib import contextmanager
 from collections import namedtuple
+from test.script_helper import assert_python_ok
 from test.test_support import (
-    TESTFN, forget, rmtree, EnvironmentVarGuard, reap_children, captured_stdout)
+    TESTFN, rmtree, reap_children, captured_stdout)
 
 from test import pydoc_mod
 
@@ -176,17 +175,15 @@
 # output pattern for module with bad imports
 badimport_pattern = "problem in %s - <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named %s"
 
-def run_pydoc(module_name, *args):
+def run_pydoc(module_name, *args, **env):
     """
     Runs pydoc on the specified module. Returns the stripped
     output of pydoc.
     """
-    cmd = [sys.executable, pydoc.__file__, " ".join(args), module_name]
-    try:
-        output = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
-        return output.strip()
-    finally:
-        reap_children()
+    args = args + (module_name,)
+    # do not write bytecode files to avoid caching errors
+    rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-B', pydoc.__file__, *args, **env)
+    return out.strip()
 
 def get_pydoc_html(module):
     "Returns pydoc generated output as html"
@@ -259,42 +256,6 @@
         self.assertEqual(expected, result,
             "documentation for missing module found")
 
-    def test_badimport(self):
-        # This tests the fix for issue 5230, where if pydoc found the module
-        # but the module had an internal import error pydoc would report no doc
-        # found.
-        modname = 'testmod_xyzzy'
-        testpairs = (
-            ('i_am_not_here', 'i_am_not_here'),
-            ('test.i_am_not_here_either', 'i_am_not_here_either'),
-            ('test.i_am_not_here.neither_am_i', 'i_am_not_here.neither_am_i'),
-            ('i_am_not_here.{}'.format(modname), 'i_am_not_here.{}'.format(modname)),
-            ('test.{}'.format(modname), modname),
-            )
-
-        @contextmanager
-        def newdirinpath(dir):
-            os.mkdir(dir)
-            sys.path.insert(0, dir)
-            yield
-            sys.path.pop(0)
-            rmtree(dir)
-
-        with newdirinpath(TESTFN), EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
-            env['PYTHONPATH'] = TESTFN
-            fullmodname = os.path.join(TESTFN, modname)
-            sourcefn = fullmodname + os.extsep + "py"
-            for importstring, expectedinmsg in testpairs:
-                f = open(sourcefn, 'w')
-                f.write("import {}\n".format(importstring))
-                f.close()
-                try:
-                    result = run_pydoc(modname)
-                finally:
-                    forget(modname)
-                expected = badimport_pattern % (modname, expectedinmsg)
-                self.assertEqual(expected, result)
-
     def test_input_strip(self):
         missing_module = " test.i_am_not_here "
         result = run_pydoc(missing_module)
@@ -317,6 +278,55 @@
                          "<type 'exceptions.Exception'>")
 
 
+class PydocImportTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.test_dir = os.mkdir(TESTFN)
+        self.addCleanup(rmtree, TESTFN)
+
+    def test_badimport(self):
+        # This tests the fix for issue 5230, where if pydoc found the module
+        # but the module had an internal import error pydoc would report no doc
+        # found.
+        modname = 'testmod_xyzzy'
+        testpairs = (
+            ('i_am_not_here', 'i_am_not_here'),
+            ('test.i_am_not_here_either', 'i_am_not_here_either'),
+            ('test.i_am_not_here.neither_am_i', 'i_am_not_here.neither_am_i'),
+            ('i_am_not_here.{}'.format(modname),
+             'i_am_not_here.{}'.format(modname)),
+            ('test.{}'.format(modname), modname),
+            )
+
+        sourcefn = os.path.join(TESTFN, modname) + os.extsep + "py"
+        for importstring, expectedinmsg in testpairs:
+            with open(sourcefn, 'w') as f:
+                f.write("import {}\n".format(importstring))
+            result = run_pydoc(modname, PYTHONPATH=TESTFN)
+            expected = badimport_pattern % (modname, expectedinmsg)
+            self.assertEqual(expected, result)
+
+    def test_apropos_with_bad_package(self):
+        # Issue 7425 - pydoc -k failed when bad package on path
+        pkgdir = os.path.join(TESTFN, "syntaxerr")
+        os.mkdir(pkgdir)
+        badsyntax = os.path.join(pkgdir, "__init__") + os.extsep + "py"
+        with open(badsyntax, 'w') as f:
+            f.write("invalid python syntax = $1\n")
+        result = run_pydoc('nothing', '-k', PYTHONPATH=TESTFN)
+        self.assertEqual('', result)
+
+    def test_apropos_with_unreadable_dir(self):
+        # Issue 7367 - pydoc -k failed when unreadable dir on path
+        self.unreadable_dir = os.path.join(TESTFN, "unreadable")
+        os.mkdir(self.unreadable_dir, 0)
+        self.addCleanup(os.rmdir, self.unreadable_dir)
+        # Note, on Windows the directory appears to be still
+        #   readable so this is not really testing the issue there
+        result = run_pydoc('nothing', '-k', PYTHONPATH=TESTFN)
+        self.assertEqual('', result)
+
+
 class TestDescriptions(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_module(self):
@@ -376,9 +386,13 @@
 
 
 def test_main():
-    test.test_support.run_unittest(PyDocDocTest,
-                                   TestDescriptions,
-                                   TestHelper)
+    try:
+        test.test_support.run_unittest(PyDocDocTest,
+                                       PydocImportTest,
+                                       TestDescriptions,
+                                       TestHelper)
+    finally:
+        reap_children()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     test_main()