diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_cookie b/Lib/test/output/test_cookie
deleted file mode 100644
index 95c73283bc2..00000000000
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_cookie
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-test_cookie
-<SimpleCookie: chips='ahoy' vienna='finger'>
-Set-Cookie: chips=ahoy
-Set-Cookie: vienna=finger
-  chips 'ahoy' 'ahoy'
-Set-Cookie: chips=ahoy
-  vienna 'finger' 'finger'
-Set-Cookie: vienna=finger
-<SimpleCookie: keebler='E=mc2; L="Loves"; fudge=\n;'>
-Set-Cookie: keebler="E=mc2; L=\"Loves\"; fudge=\012;"
-  keebler 'E=mc2; L="Loves"; fudge=\n;' 'E=mc2; L="Loves"; fudge=\n;'
-Set-Cookie: keebler="E=mc2; L=\"Loves\"; fudge=\012;"
-<SimpleCookie: keebler='E=mc2'>
-Set-Cookie: keebler=E=mc2
-  keebler 'E=mc2' 'E=mc2'
-Set-Cookie: keebler=E=mc2
-Set-Cookie: Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Path=/acme
-
-        <script type="text/javascript">
-        <!-- begin hiding
-        document.cookie = "Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Path=/acme; Version=1";
-        // end hiding -->
-        </script>
-        
-
-        <script type="text/javascript">
-        <!-- begin hiding
-        document.cookie = "Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Path=/acme";
-        // end hiding -->
-        </script>
-        
-If anything blows up after this line, it's from Cookie's doctest.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cookie.py b/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
index c20beeeb1e5..e7c0cf1cccb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Simple test suite for Cookie.py
 
-from test.test_support import verify, verbose, run_doctest
+from test.test_support import run_unittest, run_doctest
+import unittest
 import Cookie
 
 import warnings
@@ -8,43 +9,74 @@ warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",
                         ".* class is insecure.*",
                         DeprecationWarning)
 
-# Currently this only tests SimpleCookie
+class CookieTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    # Currently this only tests SimpleCookie
+    def test_basic(self):
+        cases = [
+            { 'data': 'chips=ahoy; vienna=finger',
+              'dict': {'chips':'ahoy', 'vienna':'finger'},
+              'repr': "<SimpleCookie: chips='ahoy' vienna='finger'>",
+              'output': 'Set-Cookie: chips=ahoy\nSet-Cookie: vienna=finger',
+            },
 
-cases = [
-    ('chips=ahoy; vienna=finger', {'chips':'ahoy', 'vienna':'finger'}),
-    ('keebler="E=mc2; L=\\"Loves\\"; fudge=\\012;"',
-     {'keebler' : 'E=mc2; L="Loves"; fudge=\012;'}),
+            { 'data': 'keebler="E=mc2; L=\\"Loves\\"; fudge=\\012;"',
+              'dict': {'keebler' : 'E=mc2; L="Loves"; fudge=\012;'},
+              'repr': '''<SimpleCookie: keebler='E=mc2; L="Loves"; fudge=\\n;'>''',
+              'output': 'Set-Cookie: keebler="E=mc2; L=\\"Loves\\"; fudge=\\012;"',
+            },
 
-    # Check illegal cookies that have an '=' char in an unquoted value
-    ('keebler=E=mc2', {'keebler' : 'E=mc2'})
-    ]
+            # Check illegal cookies that have an '=' char in an unquoted value
+            { 'data': 'keebler=E=mc2',
+              'dict': {'keebler' : 'E=mc2'},
+              'repr': "<SimpleCookie: keebler='E=mc2'>",
+              'output': 'Set-Cookie: keebler=E=mc2',
+            }
+        ]
 
-for data, dict in cases:
-    C = Cookie.SimpleCookie() ; C.load(data)
-    print repr(C)
-    print C.output(sep='\n')
-    for k, v in sorted(dict.iteritems()):
-        print ' ', k, repr( C[k].value ), repr(v)
-        verify(C[k].value == v)
-        print C[k]
+        for case in cases:
+            C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+            C.load(case['data'])
+            self.assertEqual(repr(C), case['repr'])
+            self.assertEqual(C.output(sep='\n'), case['output'])
+            for k, v in sorted(case['dict'].iteritems()):
+                self.assertEqual(C[k].value, v)
 
-C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
-C.load('Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Version=1; Path=/acme')
+    def test_load(self):
+        C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+        C.load('Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Version=1; Path=/acme')
 
-verify(C['Customer'].value == 'WILE_E_COYOTE')
-verify(C['Customer']['version'] == '1')
-verify(C['Customer']['path'] == '/acme')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer'].value, 'WILE_E_COYOTE')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['version'], '1')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['path'], '/acme')
 
-print C.output(['path'])
-print C.js_output()
-print C.js_output(['path'])
+        self.assertEqual(C.output(['path']),
+            'Set-Cookie: Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Path=/acme')
+        self.assertEqual(C.js_output(), """
+        <script type="text/javascript">
+        <!-- begin hiding
+        document.cookie = "Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Path=/acme; Version=1";
+        // end hiding -->
+        </script>
+        """)
+        self.assertEqual(C.js_output(['path']), """
+        <script type="text/javascript">
+        <!-- begin hiding
+        document.cookie = "Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Path=/acme";
+        // end hiding -->
+        </script>
+        """)
 
-# Try cookie with quoted meta-data
-C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
-C.load('Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Version="1"; Path="/acme"')
-verify(C['Customer'].value == 'WILE_E_COYOTE')
-verify(C['Customer']['version'] == '1')
-verify(C['Customer']['path'] == '/acme')
+    def test_quoted_meta(self):
+        # Try cookie with quoted meta-data
+        C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+        C.load('Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"; Version="1"; Path="/acme"')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer'].value, 'WILE_E_COYOTE')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['version'], '1')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['path'], '/acme')
 
-print "If anything blows up after this line, it's from Cookie's doctest."
-run_doctest(Cookie)
+def test_main():
+    run_unittest(CookieTests)
+    run_doctest(Cookie)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    test_main()