diff --git a/Lib/functools.py b/Lib/functools.py
index 30e1d24..a54f030 100644
--- a/Lib/functools.py
+++ b/Lib/functools.py
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@
 #   Copyright (C) 2006 Python Software Foundation.
 # See C source code for _functools credits/copyright
 
-from _functools import partial
-from __builtin__ import reduce
+from _functools import partial, reduce
 
 # update_wrapper() and wraps() are tools to help write
 # wrapper functions that can handle naive introspection
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_functools.py b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
index 6012f9f..30d419d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_functools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
@@ -267,6 +267,48 @@
         self.assertEqual(wrapper.dict_attr, f.dict_attr)
 
 
+class TestReduce(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_reduce(self):
+        class Squares:
+
+            def __init__(self, max):
+                self.max = max
+                self.sofar = []
+
+            def __len__(self): return len(self.sofar)
+
+            def __getitem__(self, i):
+                if not 0 <= i < self.max: raise IndexError
+                n = len(self.sofar)
+                while n <= i:
+                    self.sofar.append(n*n)
+                    n += 1
+                return self.sofar[i]
+
+        reduce = functools.reduce
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(lambda x, y: x+y, ['a', 'b', 'c'], ''), 'abc')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            reduce(lambda x, y: x+y, [['a', 'c'], [], ['d', 'w']], []),
+            ['a','c','d','w']
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(lambda x, y: x*y, range(2,8), 1), 5040)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            reduce(lambda x, y: x*y, range(2,21), 1L),
+            2432902008176640000L
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(lambda x, y: x+y, Squares(10)), 285)
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(lambda x, y: x+y, Squares(10), 0), 285)
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(lambda x, y: x+y, Squares(0), 0), 0)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, reduce)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, reduce, 42, 42)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, reduce, 42, 42, 42)
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(42, "1"), "1") # func is never called with one item
+        self.assertEqual(reduce(42, "", "1"), "1") # func is never called with one item
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, reduce, 42, (42, 42))
+
+
+
 
 def test_main(verbose=None):
     import sys
@@ -275,7 +317,8 @@
         TestPartialSubclass,
         TestPythonPartial,
         TestUpdateWrapper,
-        TestWraps
+        TestWraps,
+        TestReduce,
     )
     test_support.run_unittest(*test_classes)