diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 5406a2891bb..dc44e506b1d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -1119,12 +1119,12 @@ class CommonBufferedTests:
     def test_repr(self):
         raw = self.MockRawIO()
         b = self.tp(raw)
-        clsname = "%s.%s" % (self.tp.__module__, self.tp.__qualname__)
-        self.assertEqual(repr(b), "<%s>" % clsname)
+        clsname = r"(%s\.)?%s" % (self.tp.__module__, self.tp.__qualname__)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(b), "<%s>" % clsname)
         raw.name = "dummy"
-        self.assertEqual(repr(b), "<%s name='dummy'>" % clsname)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(b), "<%s name='dummy'>" % clsname)
         raw.name = b"dummy"
-        self.assertEqual(repr(b), "<%s name=b'dummy'>" % clsname)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(b), "<%s name=b'dummy'>" % clsname)
 
     def test_recursive_repr(self):
         # Issue #25455
@@ -2598,17 +2598,17 @@ class TextIOWrapperTest(unittest.TestCase):
         b = self.BufferedReader(raw)
         t = self.TextIOWrapper(b, encoding="utf-8")
         modname = self.TextIOWrapper.__module__
-        self.assertEqual(repr(t),
-                         "<%s.TextIOWrapper encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(t),
+                         r"<(%s\.)?TextIOWrapper encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
         raw.name = "dummy"
-        self.assertEqual(repr(t),
-                         "<%s.TextIOWrapper name='dummy' encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(t),
+                         r"<(%s\.)?TextIOWrapper name='dummy' encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
         t.mode = "r"
-        self.assertEqual(repr(t),
-                         "<%s.TextIOWrapper name='dummy' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(t),
+                         r"<(%s\.)?TextIOWrapper name='dummy' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
         raw.name = b"dummy"
-        self.assertEqual(repr(t),
-                         "<%s.TextIOWrapper name=b'dummy' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
+        self.assertRegex(repr(t),
+                         r"<(%s\.)?TextIOWrapper name=b'dummy' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>" % modname)
 
         t.buffer.detach()
         repr(t)  # Should not raise an exception
@@ -4174,11 +4174,11 @@ class CMiscIOTest(MiscIOTest):
         err = res.err.decode()
         if res.rc != 0:
             # Failure: should be a fatal error
-            self.assertIn("Fatal Python error: could not acquire lock "
-                          "for <_io.BufferedWriter name='<{stream_name}>'> "
-                          "at interpreter shutdown, possibly due to "
-                          "daemon threads".format_map(locals()),
-                          err)
+            pattern = (r"Fatal Python error: could not acquire lock "
+                       r"for <(_io\.)?BufferedWriter name='<{stream_name}>'> "
+                       r"at interpreter shutdown, possibly due to "
+                       r"daemon threads".format_map(locals()))
+            self.assertRegex(err, pattern)
         else:
             self.assertFalse(err.strip('.!'))
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 0a77e6fe9ed..137c31de59a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1761,24 +1761,28 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_match_repr(self):
         for string in '[abracadabra]', S('[abracadabra]'):
             m = re.search(r'(.+)(.*?)\1', string)
-            self.assertEqual(repr(m), "<%s.%s object; "
-                             "span=(1, 12), match='abracadabra'>" %
-                             (type(m).__module__, type(m).__qualname__))
+            pattern = r"<(%s\.)?%s object; span=\(1, 12\), match='abracadabra'>" % (
+                type(m).__module__, type(m).__qualname__
+            )
+            self.assertRegex(repr(m), pattern)
         for string in (b'[abracadabra]', B(b'[abracadabra]'),
                        bytearray(b'[abracadabra]'),
                        memoryview(b'[abracadabra]')):
             m = re.search(br'(.+)(.*?)\1', string)
-            self.assertEqual(repr(m), "<%s.%s object; "
-                             "span=(1, 12), match=b'abracadabra'>" %
-                             (type(m).__module__, type(m).__qualname__))
+            pattern = r"<(%s\.)?%s object; span=\(1, 12\), match=b'abracadabra'>" % (
+                type(m).__module__, type(m).__qualname__
+            )
+            self.assertRegex(repr(m), pattern)
 
         first, second = list(re.finditer("(aa)|(bb)", "aa bb"))
-        self.assertEqual(repr(first), "<%s.%s object; "
-                         "span=(0, 2), match='aa'>" %
-                         (type(second).__module__, type(first).__qualname__))
-        self.assertEqual(repr(second), "<%s.%s object; "
-                         "span=(3, 5), match='bb'>" %
-                         (type(second).__module__, type(second).__qualname__))
+        pattern = r"<(%s\.)?%s object; span=\(0, 2\), match='aa'>" % (
+            type(second).__module__, type(second).__qualname__
+        )
+        self.assertRegex(repr(first), pattern)
+        pattern = r"<(%s\.)?%s object; span=\(3, 5\), match='bb'>" % (
+            type(second).__module__, type(second).__qualname__
+        )
+        self.assertRegex(repr(second), pattern)
 
     def test_zerowidth(self):
         # Issues 852532, 1647489, 3262, 25054.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 87107b9cfc7..6b1fdbc37fa 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ Michel Van den Bergh
 Julian Berman
 Brice Berna
 Olivier Bernard
+Maxwell Bernstein
 Eric Beser
 Steven Bethard
 Stephen Bevan