avoid deprecated unittest functions
diff --git a/test/test_iolib.py b/test/test_iolib.py
index 7f30a49..43ab797 100644
--- a/test/test_iolib.py
+++ b/test/test_iolib.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
self.io.write(b"hello\n".decode('utf-8'))
self.io.flush() # it is buffering. required to get the data out
hello = self.io.readline()
- self.failUnlessEqual(hello, b"hello\n".decode('utf-8'))
+ self.assertEqual(hello, b"hello\n".decode('utf-8'))
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if __name__ == '__main__':