diff --git a/Lib/test/test_repr.py b/Lib/test/test_repr.py
index af66e97..ac1a0a0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_repr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_repr.py
@@ -197,10 +197,6 @@
     fp.write(text)
     fp.close()
 
-def zap(actions, dirname, names):
-    for name in names:
-        actions.append(os.path.join(dirname, name))
-
 class LongReprTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         longname = 'areallylongpackageandmodulenametotestreprtruncation'
@@ -219,7 +215,9 @@
 
     def tearDown(self):
         actions = []
-        os.path.walk(self.pkgname, zap, actions)
+        for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(self.pkgname):
+            for name in dirnames + filenames:
+                actions.append(os.path.join(dirpath, name))
         actions.append(self.pkgname)
         actions.sort()
         actions.reverse()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 431b66b..92592eb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@
     and unexpected skips.
     """
 
+def import_module(name, deprecated=False):
+    """Import the module to be tested, raising TestSkipped if it is not
+    available."""
+    with catch_warning(record=False):
+        if deprecated:
+            warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", ".+ module", DeprecationWarning)
+        try:
+            module = __import__(name, level=0)
+        except ImportError:
+            raise TestSkipped("No module named " + name)
+        else:
+            return module
+
 verbose = 1              # Flag set to 0 by regrtest.py
 use_resources = None     # Flag set to [] by regrtest.py
 max_memuse = 0           # Disable bigmem tests (they will still be run with
@@ -373,7 +386,7 @@
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager
-def catch_warning(module=warnings):
+def catch_warning(module=warnings, record=True):
     """
     Guard the warnings filter from being permanently changed and record the
     data of the last warning that has been issued.
@@ -384,12 +397,13 @@
             warnings.warn("foo")
             assert str(w.message) == "foo"
     """
-    warning_obj = WarningMessage()
     original_filters = module.filters[:]
     original_showwarning = module.showwarning
-    module.showwarning = warning_obj._showwarning
+    if record:
+        warning_obj = WarningMessage()
+        module.showwarning = warning_obj._showwarning
     try:
-        yield warning_obj
+        yield warning_obj if record else None
     finally:
         module.showwarning = original_showwarning
         module.filters = original_filters
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 7961837..3a0abe1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -324,7 +324,8 @@
         self.failUnless(sys.flags)
         attrs = ("debug", "division_warning",
                  "inspect", "interactive", "optimize", "dont_write_bytecode",
-                 "no_site", "ignore_environment", "tabcheck", "verbose")
+                 "no_site", "ignore_environment", "tabcheck", "verbose",
+                 "bytes_warning")
         for attr in attrs:
             self.assert_(hasattr(sys.flags, attr), attr)
             self.assertEqual(type(getattr(sys.flags, attr)), int, attr)