diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 55a03daecad..ed7f6ceb4de 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class urlopen_HttpTests(unittest.TestCase):
             self.unfakehttp()
 
     def test_read_bogus(self):
-        "urlopen() should raise IOError for many error codes."
+        # urlopen() should raise IOError for many error codes.
         self.fakehttp('''HTTP/1.1 401 Authentication Required
 Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:03:54 GMT
 Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
             self.unfakehttp()
 
     def test_empty_socket(self):
-        """urlopen() raises IOError if the underlying socket does not send any
-        data. (#1680230) """
+        # urlopen() raises IOError if the underlying socket does not send any
+        # data. (#1680230)
         self.fakehttp('')
         try:
             self.assertRaises(IOError, urllib.urlopen, 'http://something')