diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index c98cc140242..432a001e7cb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -2413,6 +2413,13 @@ class UnicodeTest(string_tests.CommonTest,
         support.check_free_after_iterating(self, iter, str)
         support.check_free_after_iterating(self, reversed, str)
 
+    def test_invalid_sequences(self):
+        for letter in string.ascii_letters + "89": # 0-7 are octal escapes
+            if letter in "abfnrtuvxNU":
+                continue
+            with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
+                eval(r"'\%s'" % letter)
+
 
 class CAPITest(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -2773,13 +2780,6 @@ class CAPITest(unittest.TestCase):
                 # Check that the second call returns the same result
                 self.assertEqual(getargs_s_hash(s), chr(k).encode() * (i + 1))
 
-    def test_invalid_sequences(self):
-        for letter in string.ascii_letters + "89": # 0-7 are octal escapes
-            if letter in "abfnrtuvxNU":
-                continue
-            with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
-                eval(r"'\%s'" % letter)
-
 class StringModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_formatter_parser(self):
         def parse(format):