diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sre.py b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
index 59497ae9601..982cad963db 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sre.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
@@ -114,79 +114,3 @@ test(r"""pat.match('ac').group(1, 'b2', 3)""", ('a', None, 'c'))
 for op in '','?','*':
     test(r"""sre.match(r'((.%s):)?z', 'z').groups()"""%op, (None, None))
     test(r"""sre.match(r'((.%s):)?z', 'a:z').groups()"""%op, ('a:', 'a'))
-
-if verbose:
-    print "Running tests on sre.escape"
-
-p = ""
-for i in range(0, 256):
-    p = p + chr(i)
-    test(r"""sre.match(sre.escape(chr(i)), chr(i)) is not None""", 1)
-    test(r"""sre.match(sre.escape(chr(i)), chr(i)).span()""", (0,1))
-
-pat = sre.compile(sre.escape(p))
-test(r"""pat.match(p) is not None""", 1)
-test(r"""pat.match(p).span()""", (0,256))
-
-if verbose:
-    print 'Running tests on sre.Scanner'
-
-def s_ident(scanner, token): return token
-def s_operator(scanner, token): return "op%s" % token
-def s_float(scanner, token): return float(token)
-def s_int(scanner, token): return int(token)
-
-scanner = sre.Scanner([
-    (r"[a-zA-Z_]\w*", s_ident),
-    (r"\d+\.\d*", s_float),
-    (r"\d+", s_int),
-    (r"=|\+|-|\*|/", s_operator),
-    (r"\s+", None),
-    ])
-
-# sanity check
-test('scanner.scan("sum = 3*foo + 312.50 + bar")',
-     (['sum', 'op=', 3, 'op*', 'foo', 'op+', 312.5, 'op+', 'bar'], ''))
-
-if verbose:
-    print 'Pickling a SRE_Pattern instance'
-
-try:
-    import pickle
-    pat = sre.compile(r'a(?:b|(c|e){1,2}?|d)+?(.)')
-    s = pickle.dumps(pat)
-    pat = pickle.loads(s)
-except:
-    print TestFailed, 're module pickle'
-
-try:
-    import cPickle
-    pat = sre.compile(r'a(?:b|(c|e){1,2}?|d)+?(.)')
-    s = cPickle.dumps(pat)
-    pat = cPickle.loads(s)
-except:
-    print TestFailed, 're module cPickle'
-
-# constants
-test(r"""sre.I""", sre.IGNORECASE)
-test(r"""sre.L""", sre.LOCALE)
-test(r"""sre.M""", sre.MULTILINE)
-test(r"""sre.S""", sre.DOTALL)
-test(r"""sre.X""", sre.VERBOSE)
-test(r"""sre.T""", sre.TEMPLATE)
-test(r"""sre.U""", sre.UNICODE)
-
-for flags in [sre.I, sre.M, sre.X, sre.S, sre.L, sre.T, sre.U]:
-    try:
-        r = sre.compile('^pattern$', flags)
-    except:
-        print 'Exception raised on flag', flags
-
-if verbose:
-    print 'Test engine limitations'
-
-# Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
-# implementation of repeated groups.
-test("sre.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span()", (0, 50000), RuntimeError)
-test("sre.match(r'(x)*y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
-test("sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001), RuntimeError)