diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_urllib2 b/Lib/test/output/test_urllib2
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+test_urllib2
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
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+from test_support import verify
+import urllib2
+
+# A couple trivial tests
+
+try:
+    urllib2.urlopen('bogus url')
+except ValueError:
+    pass
+else:
+    verify(0)
+
+file_url = "file://%s" % urllib2.__file__
+f = urllib2.urlopen(file_url)
+buf = f.read()
+f.close()
+