Index: Lib/test/test_cpickle.py
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--- Lib/test/test_cpickle.py	(revision 76877)
+++ Lib/test/test_cpickle.py	(working copy)
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-import cPickle, unittest
+import unittest
 from cStringIO import StringIO
 from test.pickletester import AbstractPickleTests, AbstractPickleModuleTests
 from test.pickletester import AbstractPicklerUnpicklerObjectTests
 from test import test_support
 
+# Silence Py3k warning
+from test.pickletester import cPickle
+
 class cPickleTests(AbstractPickleTests, AbstractPickleModuleTests):
 
     def setUp(self):
Index: Lib/test/pickletester.py
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--- Lib/test/pickletester.py	(revision 76877)
+++ Lib/test/pickletester.py	(working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import unittest
 import pickle
-import cPickle
 import StringIO
 import cStringIO
 import pickletools
@@ -8,6 +7,16 @@
 
 from test.test_support import TestFailed, have_unicode, TESTFN
 
+# Silence Py3k warning while importing cPickle
+try:
+    from test.test_support import import_module
+except ImportError:
+    # This is needed to support Python 2.4 (see comment below)
+    import cPickle
+else:
+    cPickle = import_module('cPickle', deprecated=True)
+
+
 # Tests that try a number of pickle protocols should have a
 #     for proto in protocols:
 # kind of outer loop.
Index: Lib/test/test_xpickle.py
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--- Lib/test/test_xpickle.py	(revision 76877)
+++ Lib/test/test_xpickle.py	(working copy)
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 # previous version of Python by bouncing pickled objects through Python 2.4
 # and Python 2.5 running this file.
 
-import cPickle
 import os
 import os.path
 import pickle
@@ -25,11 +24,13 @@
 mod_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
                                         "pickletester.py"))
 pickletester = types.ModuleType("test.pickletester")
-execfile(mod_path, pickletester.__dict__, pickletester.__dict__)
+exec compile(open(mod_path).read(), mod_path, 'exec') in pickletester.__dict__
 AbstractPickleTests = pickletester.AbstractPickleTests
 if pickletester.__name__ in sys.modules:
     raise RuntimeError("Did not expect to find test.pickletester loaded")
 sys.modules[pickletester.__name__] = pickletester
+# Silence Py3k warning
+cPickle = pickletester.cPickle
 
 
 class DumpCPickle_LoadPickle(AbstractPickleTests):