diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
index 4489356..b478996 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
             auth_validated = False
 
             # MSIE uses short_path in its validation, but Python's
-            # urllib2 uses the full path, so we're going to see if
+            # urllib.request uses the full path, so we're going to see if
             # either of them works here.
 
             for path in [request_handler.path, request_handler.short_path]:
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
 
 
 class TestUrlopen(BaseTestCase):
-    """Tests urllib2.urlopen using the network.
+    """Tests urllib.request.urlopen using the network.
 
     These tests are not exhaustive.  Assuming that testing using files does a
     good job overall of some of the basic interface features.  There are no
@@ -392,8 +392,8 @@
 
         handler = self.start_server(responses)
         data = self.urlopen("http://localhost:%s/" % handler.port)
-        self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
-        self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ["/", "/somewhere_else"])
+        self.assertEqual(data, expected_response)
+        self.assertEqual(handler.requests, ["/", "/somewhere_else"])
 
     def test_chunked(self):
         expected_response = b"hello world"
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
         response = [(200, [("Transfer-Encoding", "chunked")], chunked_start)]
         handler = self.start_server(response)
         data = self.urlopen("http://localhost:%s/" % handler.port)
-        self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
+        self.assertEqual(data, expected_response)
 
     def test_404(self):
         expected_response = b"Bad bad bad..."
@@ -421,23 +421,23 @@
         else:
             self.fail("404 should raise URLError")
 
-        self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
-        self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ["/weeble"])
+        self.assertEqual(data, expected_response)
+        self.assertEqual(handler.requests, ["/weeble"])
 
     def test_200(self):
         expected_response = b"pycon 2008..."
         handler = self.start_server([(200, [], expected_response)])
         data = self.urlopen("http://localhost:%s/bizarre" % handler.port)
-        self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
-        self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ["/bizarre"])
+        self.assertEqual(data, expected_response)
+        self.assertEqual(handler.requests, ["/bizarre"])
 
     def test_200_with_parameters(self):
         expected_response = b"pycon 2008..."
         handler = self.start_server([(200, [], expected_response)])
         data = self.urlopen("http://localhost:%s/bizarre" % handler.port,
                              b"get=with_feeling")
-        self.assertEquals(data, expected_response)
-        self.assertEquals(handler.requests, ["/bizarre", b"get=with_feeling"])
+        self.assertEqual(data, expected_response)
+        self.assertEqual(handler.requests, ["/bizarre", b"get=with_feeling"])
 
     def test_sending_headers(self):
         handler = self.start_server()